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MISCELLANEOUS. 



THE BIEDS OF SHERWOOD EOEEST; with Obser- 



vations ob their Nesting, Habits, and Migrations. By W. J. Stebland. 

 Crown 8vo, 4 Plates, ^s. 6d. coloured. 



THE NATURALIST IN NORWAY; or. Notes on the 



Wild Animals, Birds, Fishes, and Plants of that Country, with some 

 account of the principal Salmon Rivers. By the Rev. J. Bowden, LL.D. 

 Crown 8vo, 8 Coloured Plates. 10*. 6d. 



CALIPHS AND SULTANS ; being Tales omitted in the 



ordinary English Version of ' The Arabian Nights Entertainments,' freely 

 rewritten and rearranged. By S. Hanley, F.L.S. 6«. 



LIVE COALS ; or, Faces from the Fire. By L. M. Budgen, 



" Acheta," Author of ' Episodes of Insect Life,' etc. Dedicated, by Specif 

 Permission, to H.R.H. Meld-Marsbal the Duke of Cambridge. Royal 

 4to, 36 Original Sketches printed in colours, i2s. 



' The ' Episodes of Insect Life,' published in three scries some years since, won 

 from the late Prince Consort a graceful acknowledgment in the presentation to 

 the Author of a copy of a book, ' The Natural History of Deeside,' privately 

 printed by command of Her Majesty the Queen. The above Work comprises a 

 series of Thirty-five highly imaginative and humorons Sketches, suggested by 

 burning Coals and Wood, accompanied by Essays, descriptive and discursive, 

 on ; — The Imagery of Accident — ^The Fire in a New Light — The Fire an Ex- 

 hibitor — The Fire a Sculptor. 



SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS : their Influences through- 



out Creation. A Compendium of Popular Meteorology. By Andbew 

 Stbinmktz, Esq. Crown 8vo, Wood Engravings, 7*. 6d. 



This Work not only treats folly all the leading topics of Meteorology, but es- 

 pecially of the use of the Hygrometer, for which systematic Roles are now for 

 the first time drawn up. Among other interesting nud useful subjects, are chap- 

 ters on Rainfall in England and Europe in genei-al — Wet and Dry Years Tem- 

 perature and Moisture with respect to the health of Plants and Animals The 



Wonders of Evaporation — Soil Temperature — ^The Influence of Trees on Climate 



and Water Supply— The Prognostication of the Seasons and Harvest The 



Characteristics and Meteorology of the Seasons — Rules of the Barometer Rides 



of the Thermometer as a Weatlier Glass — Popular Weather-casts — Anemometry 

 — and finally. What becomes of the Simshine — and what becomes of the 

 Showers. 



