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ALPINE PLANTS. 
Srconp Serres. Containing Fifty-four Coloured Plates, with one or two 
Figures on each Plate. Descriptions and accurately-coloured Figures 
(drawn and engraved expressly for this Work) of the most striking and 
beautiful of the Alpine Plants. Edited by Davin Wooster. Price £1 5s. 
BRITISH MOSSES. 
Their Homes, Aspects, Structure, and Uses. Containing a Coloured Figure 
of each species, etched from Nature. By F. E. Tre. Illustrated with 39 
beautifully-coloured Plates. In Two Volumes, super-royal 8vo., £2 10s. 
‘It is a book to read, to ponder, to mark, learn, and inwardly digest. . . . Let those who want to 
know the “moral” of mosses enquire within the covers of the volume. He will there find that 
these humble plants have their uses, their virtues, and their mission.’-—Morning Advertiser. 
HISTORY OF THE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 
_By JonatHan Covucn, F.L.S.. Illustrated with 256 carefully coloured 
Plates. New Edition, in Four Volumes, super-royal 8vo., price £4 4s. 
‘The author, who is well known as one of the first practical authorities on British fishes, 
has for fifty years been observing, noting, and drawing, with his own pencil, the various fish 
which live in British waters—a vast labour, in which he has been assisted by scientific friends 
living in various portions of the United Kingdom. The drawings are beautifully coloured to 
life, and some of the portraits (especially of the dog-fish) are really marvellous, rendering 
the recognition of a fish a work of the greatest ease.’—The Field. 
SOWERBY’S ENGLISH BOTANY: 
Containing a Description and Life-size coloured Drawing of every British 
Plant. Edited and brought up to the Present Standard of Scientific 
Knowledge by T. Boswett, (formerly Syme,) LL.D. F.L.S. &e. With 
Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by 
Mrs. LanxestEer, Author of ‘Wild Flowers Worth Notice,’ ‘The British 
Ferns, &. The Figures by J. E. Sowersy, James Sowersy, F.LS., 
J. De C. SowErsy, F.L.S., and J. W. Satter, A.L.S. In Eleven Volumes, 
with 1824 full-page coloured plates, super-royal Svo. (for prices see p. 7.) 
‘Under the editorship of T. Boswell Syme, F.LS., assisted by Mrs. Lankester, ‘“Sowerby’s 
English Botany,” when finished, will be exhaustive of the subject, and worthy of the branch 
of science it illustrates. . . . In turning over the charmingly executed hand-coloured plates 
of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help being 
struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless 
step. We cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in the splendid bouquet of 
flowers presented in these pages, and it will be sufficient to state that the work is pledged to 
contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these isles.’—The Times. 
‘The most complete Flora of Great Britain ever brought out. This great work will find 
a place wherever botanical science is cultivated, and the study of our native plants, with all 
their fascinating associations, held dear.’—Atheneum. 
‘Nothing can exceed the beauty and accuracy of the coloured figures. They are drawn 
life-size—an advantage which every young amateur will recognise who has vainly puzzled over 
drawings in which a celandine is as big as a poppy—they are enriched with delicate delinea- 
tions of fruit, petal, anther, and any organ which happens to be remarkable in its form—and 
not a few plates are altogether new. . . . A clear, bold distinctive type enables the reader 
