January, 1876. 



GEORGE BELL & SONS^ 



LIST OF WORKS 



ON 



BOTANY & NATURAL HISTORY. 



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. Boswell, (formerly Syme,) LL.D. F.L.S. &c. With 

 Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by 

 Mrs. Lankester, Author of 'Wild Flowers Worth Notice,' 'The British 

 Ferns,' &c. The Figures by J. E. Sowebby, James Sowerbt, F.L.S., 

 J. De C. Sowerbt, F.L.S., and J. W. Salter, A.L.S. In Eleven Volumes, 

 super-royal 8vo. (For prices see f. 3.) 



'Under the editorship of T. Boswell Syme, F.L S., 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 

 stnick 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 wUl be sufficient to state that the work is pledged to 

 contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these isles.' — The Times. 



'Will be the most complete Flora of G-reat 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.' — Athenceum. 



'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 wiich 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 

 to take in at a glance the arrangement and divisions of every page. And Mrs. Lankester 

 has added to the technical description by the editor an extremely interesting popular sketch, 

 which follows in smaller type. The English, French, and German popular names are given, 

 and, wherever that delicate and difficult step is at all practicable, their derivation also. 

 Medical properties, superstitions, and fancies, and poetic tributes and illusions, follow. In 

 short, there is nothing more left to be desired.' — Guardian. 



'Without question, this is the standard work on Botany, and indispensable to every 

 botanist. . . . The plates are most accurate and beautiful, and the entire work cannot be 

 too strongly recommended to all who are uiterested in Botany.' — Illustrated Neivs, 



