Part I. Now Ready. Part II. in the Pres8. 



A 



MONOGRAPH 



OF THE 



LAND AND FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA 



OF THE 



BRITISH ISLES, 



BY 



J. W. TAYLOR, F.L.S., 



■Nlembre Honoraire de la Soci^t^ Malacologique de France, 



President of the Conchological Society of (jreat Britain and Ireland, 



Editor of "The Journal of Conchology," 



etc., etc., 



WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF 



W. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., the late CHAS. ASHFORD, 



AND OTHER WELL-KNOWN CONCHOLOGISTS. 



Price 6/- per part, or by Subscription 5/- per part, post-free 

 3d. per copy extra. 



Taylor Bros., Publishers, Sovereign Street, Leeds. 



OPINIONS OF THE SCIENTIFIC PRESS. 



"THE NATURALIST," January, 1895. 



" We know no one better fitted to write such a book than the Author of this 

 ^Monograph. To the study of British Land and Freshwater Mollusca, Mr. Taylor 

 has devoted the best part of a lifetime and from years of personal knowledge we 

 know how closely he has applied himself, strictly and specially, to the subject he has 

 imdertaken to write upon, and has mastered, as few in Britain have, those generic and 

 specific difierences and varietal intricacies which will be the book's chief value when 

 completed. . . The illustrations are numerous, truthful, and got up in a manner 

 somewhat different from what Conchologists are accustomed to, since photography, a 

 worry after half-hidden details, an artistic hand, and a brain educated to recognise 

 conchological divergencies have combined to pourtray the most of them. . . In 

 a sentence, we may say Mr. Taylor's ' Monograph of the Land and Freshwater 

 Mollusca of the British Isles ' is a book printed on good paper, with clear type 

 properly displayed, excellent and original illustrations, full of close and sound reason- 

 ing, well balanced subjects, and giving (as few books have given) credit to those 

 workers who have made and are making the study of British Conchology worth 

 following for its own sake." 



"SCIENCE GOSSIP," Dec. ist, 1S94. 



"The first part of this long-expected work is at last before us, and we may 

 candidly say it exceeds our expectations. Well considered, well arranged, well 

 illustrated, and well produced, Part I creates the impression that we have at last in 

 view a standard work on this popular group of easily studied animals. It bids fair 

 to be, for a long time to come, much the best and most complete work on the 

 subject. The illustrations are excellent, specially the coloured plate ... If 

 the high character of this first part is as well maintained to the end of the work, and 

 of this there is no reason for doubt, we shall have not only an useful, but a very 

 handsome book indeed." 



"ANNALS & MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY," Jan. 7th, 1895. 



"Judging from the part of Mr. Taylor's work before us, it would appear that 

 the subject will be treated in a far more exhaustive manner than has ever been 

 attempted previously. . . . The printing, paper and general appearance of the 

 work are all that can be desired ; the figures as a whole are very good indeed. . . 

 The coloured plate, produced by chromo lithography is also very successful. . . 

 Considering the need of such a work, the style in which it is issued, and the com- 

 pleteness aimed at, there seems every probability of its gaining a wide circulation. 



