EXTRACTS FROM OPINIONS OF THE PRESS (Continued). 
CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. 
The most striking feature of Mr, Saville-Kent’s magnificent monograph on 
“The Great Barrier Reef of Australia ’’ is the wonderful series of photographic 
plates which illustrate in a way never before attempted the extraordinary variety 
of shape and beauty of form which corals present. It almost takes away our 
breath to be suddenly shown one of these plates ; we feel that we are looking at 
the thing itself, and we are lost in admiration at the skill of the photographer 
and the care of the publisher which have combined to produce these results. 
STANDARD. 
The old naturalist probably never dreamt of the world having to welcome so 
sumptuous a monograph as that which Mr. Saville-Kent has issued. For not 
only is it all that its title claims—an exhaustive account of the great coral reef 
which stretches along the Queensland coast—but in addition it forms a very 
admirable history of the marine resourcesof the Colony with which the author 
was so honourably connected as Commissioner of Fisheries. Nothing seems to 
be omitted, and everything is illustrated in the most beautiful manner by forty- 
eight plates, in which photo-mezzotype appears at its best, and sixteen chromo- 
lithographs from the pencil of the accomplished zoologist whose services to 
science have been so long and so varied. Altogether, a work more satisfactory, 
from an artistic and a scientific point of view has seldom come before us. 
WEST AUSTRALIAN. 
Mr. Saville-Kent’s book on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia is truly 
@ monumental work, and is an important contribution to both science and 
art. . . . The book, which is a veritable édition de lure, and inspires 
admiration on the part of the most casual individual who may pick it up, 
compels the interested attention of the reader. It is as superb a specimen 
of the printer’s, photographer’s and publisher’s art as it has been our good 
fortune to see, and we can well believe that it succeeded in eliciting the special 
commendation of Her Majesty the Queen, who was graciously pleased to 
accept a copy from its author. 
DAILY NEWS. 
It is to this marvellous feature of the ocean on the eastern coast of the 
Australian continent that Mr. W. Saville-Kent has devoted the magnificent 
quarto volume with its numerous coloured and photographic illustrations. . . 
Mr. Saville-Kent is, in the first place, a naturalist, and none who are acquainted 
with his great ‘‘ Manual of the Infusoria,’’ will need to be told that he has gone 
about his herculean task with inexhaustible industry and zeal, and has produced 
a work unique of its kind and little likely to be superseded unless it be by future 
editions embodying further researches by the same indefatigable explorer and 
student of nature. It would be impossible to convey to a reader who has not 
examined this massive volume an adequate notion of the matter of its chapters, 
or of the singular beauty and interest of its plates, coloured and otherwise, after 
photographs and drawings. 
FIELD. 
One of the most magnificent that was ever published. Too much praise can 
hardly be bestowed upon the illustrations, which are mainly original photo- 
graphs of the largest quarto size, displaying the beauties of the corals and other 
animals constituting these marvellous structures with w degree of accuracy 
which has never been even attempted. 
THE AUSTRALASIAN. 
A great work on a great subject. . . . Only the perfection to which the 
photographic and chromo-lithographic arts have been brought could have ren- 
dered possible the production of such a really superb book as Mr. Saville-Kent’s 
“Great Barrier Reef of Australia,” the scientific value of which is so largely 
enhanced by the number and beauty of its illustrations, . . . The book is 
one which whether viewed as a scientific treatise on a fascinating subject, or as 
@ contribution to our knowledge of the economic resources of that great 
colony, or a8 a work of typographical and illustrative art, is entitled to 
unqualified praise. 
BOOKSELLER. 
One of the most striking publications of the hour, if not the most imposing 
of all. 
DAILY CHRONICLE. 
No praise could be too high for this magnificent work. . . . The text is 
extremely interesting, and written throughout in a fresh and lively’ style, 
which is too often not the case with works containing a similar amount of 
solid information. 
LA NATURE. 
M. Saville-Kent qui, pendant prés de huit années, a occupé le poste 
d’inspecteur des pécheries de la Grande-Barriére, a fait sur celle-ci une série 
d’observations qu’il a réunies dans une magnifique publication. Ce livre, 
qui paraitra sous peu, est orné de photogravures et de planches coloriées qui 
en font un véritable objet d’art; hélas! quand verrons-nous de pareils livres 
en France? A/J’étranger, quand il s’agit de science, on trouve toujours les 
bourses largement ouvertes. Que les choses sont différentes chez nous! 
NOTTS GUARDIAN. 
This magnificently illustrated and finely got-up volume, though treating 
its subject on scientific lines, is written in so lucid a style that it can be 
read with pleasure and appreciation by any ordinarily well-educated reader. 
. . . It is impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of the beauty 
and delicacy of these photo-mezzotype plates, and of the wide field which 
they cover. The subjects range from photographs of coral specimens and coral 
growths to views of reefs, islets and islands, from an illustration of a cultivated 
oyster bank to hurricane-stranded coral masses and wrecked ships, from groups 
of pearls to representations of the various species of béche-de-mer and of the 
many and odd kinds of fishes which swarm in the waters of the Great Reef. 
Mr. Saville-Kent has, indeed, by the aid of the camera, placed at the disposal 
of scientists an invaluable mass of observations, and enabled the stay-at-home 
naturalist almost to realise what Mr. Saville-Kent tells his readers was a day- 
dream of his own, namely, to see these wonderful coral organisms growing 
in their native seas. 
PHOTOGRAPHY. 
The Great Barrier Coral Reef of Australia is one of the wonders of the 
world, and the work under our notice is in every way worthy of such a subject. 
The naturalist will find in its pages a wealth of scientific fact gathered by a 
master-hand, and the ordinary individual under its guidance may wander in 
scenes of beauty and wonder hitherto unknown to him. Such a work, from 
the pen of such a scientist as the author, is an important contribution to 
British literature. 
BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 
A MANUAL OF THE 
INFUSORIA, 
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