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produced. The first volume appeared in June 1874. Dr. 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe is responsible entirely for eleven, and 

 partly for two volumes ; the other authors being, in the 

 order in which their aid was given, Mr. Henry Seebohra, Dr. 

 H. Gadow, Mr. P. L. Sclater, Mr. O. Sal v in, Mr. E. Hartert, 

 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Mr. E. Hargitt, Captain G. E. 

 Shelley, Count T. Salvadori, and Mr. Howai'd Saunders. 



New editions have been issued of the " Guide to the 

 Mammalia " (120 jpp., 57 woodcuts, and 4 plans, S-yo. ; price 

 6cL) ; " Guide to the Reptiles and Fishes" {iv, 119 'p'p., 101 

 woodcuts, 8vo. ; price Qd.) ; " Guide to Sowerby's Models of 

 British Fungi " (82 pp., 93 woodcuts, S-yo. ; price 4<i.) ; " A 

 Guide to the Mineral Gallery" (32 "pp., 8i;o. ; price Id.); 

 " An Introduction to the Study of Rocks " (118 pp., 8vo. ; 

 price 6d.). 



Arrangements for the exchange of publications have been 

 concluded with several additional institutions at home and 

 abroad. 



Selections of the Natural History publications have been 

 presented to several institutions and individuals. 



The undermentioned works are in preparation : — 



A General Catalogue of the Books in the Libraries of the 

 Natural History Museum. 



A supplementary Volume of the Catalogue of Birds, by 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe. 



A new Hand-list of Birds, by R. Bowdler Sharpe. 



Monograph on the results of Mr. Andrews's Expedition to 

 Christmas Island. 



Catalogue of Moths, Vol. II., by Sir George Hampson, 



Catalogue of Madreporarian Corals, Vol. IV., by H. M. 

 Bernard. 



Catalogue of the V/elwitsch collection of Tropical African 

 Plants, remaining parts, by W. P. Hiern and the members of 

 the staff of the Botanical Department. 



The copper-plates prepared at the expense of Sir Joseph 

 Banks, illustrating the Botany of Captain Cook's First and 

 Second Voyages, with descriptive text. 



Catalogue of Fossil Fishes, Part IV., by A. Smith Wood- 

 ward. 



Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca, Part II., by G. F. Harris. 



Catalogue of Fossil Cretaceous Bryozoa, by J. W. Gregory. 



Catalogue of Mesozoic Plants, Part III., by A. C. Seward, 



F,R.S. 



A list of Blastoidea, by F. A. Bather. 



