March, 1875. 



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 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. Sowerby, James Sowerby, F.L.S., J. De C. Sowerby, F.L.S., and 

 J. W. Salter, A.L.S. In Eleven Volumes, super-royal 8vo. {For prices see p. 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 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. 



'Will be 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.' — 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 which a celandine is as big as a poppy — they are enriched 

 with delicate delineations 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 allusions, 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 interested in botany.' — Illustrated News. 



