THE GREAT BARRIER REEF OF AUSTRALIA. 
W, Saville-Kent, Photo. 
ILLUSTRATION FROM ‘‘ THE GREAT BarriEx REEF OF AUSTRALIA.” 
EXTRACTS FROM OPINIONS OF THE PRESS 
MR. SAVILLE- KENT'S RECENT BOOK 
“THE GREAT BARRIER REEF OF AUSTRALIA” 
(PusiisHEeD By Messrs. W. H. Auten & Co., Limrrep, Lonpon). 
Super-royal Quarto (134 x 10), containing 16 Chromo and 48 Whole-page Plates in Photo-mezzotype. 
Net Price £4. 4s. 
TIMES. 
The sumptuous volume entitled, ‘‘ The Great Barrier Reef of Australia: Its 
Products and Potentialities,’’ by W. Saville-Kent, F.L.S8., F.Z.S., &c., will be 
interesting primarily to zoologists and naturalists in general, but it is not with- 
out attractions for those who concern themselves with the commercial interests 
of Australia. It contains an exhaustive ‘‘ account with copious coloured and 
photographic illustrations of the corals and coral reefs, pearl and pearl shell, 
béche-de-mer, and other fishing industries and the marine fauna of the Australian 
Great Barrier region.”’ The illustrations are very skilfully executed and very 
interesting in themselves, and the letterpress consists of a series of elaborate 
monographs on the natural features and products of this wonderful region. . . 
Mr. Saville-Kent’s chapter on the commercial potentialities of the reef is a 
veritable romance of the sea, and his whole work is a labour of love and 
enthusiasm. 
SATURDAY REVIEW. 
This is a sumptuous book: a large quarto volume, illustrated by no less 
than forty-eight plates in photo-mezzotype and sixteen in chromo-lithography. 
Such a complete study of a coral reef has never before been published. It deals 
not only with the natural history of the Great Barrier Reef, but also with 
the marine industries of that region, which are of no small importance to the 
colony of Queensland. . . Mr. Saville-Kent’s photographs and descriptions 
givea wonderfully vivid idea of these strange “toilers of the sea”’ in every respect 
but colour, and that the chromo-lithographs enableustoimagine. . . Among 
these delightful pictures it is difficult to single out any for special praise. . . 
The book is so full of curious and interesting matter that it is hard to know 
where to stop and when to put it down. Mr. Saville-Kent has brought a coral 
reef and its wonders nearer to naturalists who cannot wander far from the shores 
of colder regions than anyone hitherto has succeeded in doing, 
NATURE. 
Coral and coral reefs are likely to become additionally popular from the 
publication of a really magnificent book entitled ‘‘ The Great Barrier Reef of 
Australia: Its Products and Potentialities.”” This work . . . . presentsus 
with what is emphatically an édition de lure. Of large size, its pages teem with 
most beautiful coloured illustrations of the life of the reef, and with photographic 
reproductions of its scenery. Nothing finer in the way of book-illustration has 
come under our notice, and the illustrations will be all the more welcome to 
naturalists, in that they reproduce the characteristics of the Great Barrier with 
absolute fidelity, to which the word-painting of a Ruskin would be wholly 
unequal, . . . Mr. Saville-Kent’s book contains a series of nature-pictures 
of the corals such as has never before been submitted to the scientific world, 
anda glance at his illustrations does more to familiarise one with the phases 
and aspects of the reef and its life than pages of written description. 
MORNING POST. 
In thus foreshadowing possible sources of wealth, and in presenting this 
luxuriously fashioned account of the Great Barrier Reef and its products, Mr. 
Saville-Kent has rendered eminent service alike to the province of. Queensland 
and the cause of scientific progress and knowledge. 
SCOTSMAN. 
It is certain that since the appearance of Mr. Darwin’s monograph on Coral 
Reefs no contribution of such importance has been made to the literature of this 
interesting department of physicalscience. . . . It is certain that by bring- 
ing his researches and collections so fully within reach of students as Mr. Saville- 
Kent has done by the production of this magnificently appointed volume he has 
rendered natural science a service which it would be difficult to over-estimate. 
The work will always be a first authority on its subject, and an indispensable 
book of reference for all who wish to have views of their own upon coral reefs. 
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