THE WOBURN LIBRARY 



OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



EDITED BY 



HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, K.G., 



President of the Zoological Society. 



Bach in crown 4to, clotb gilt and gilt top. 12s. 6d. net. 



THE purpose of this Library is to provide a series of Illustrated Books, of 

 practical utility, on subjects touching Country Life. Although popular in 

 character, these volumes will be at once accurate and reliable, and will contain 

 sufficient scientific data to fit them for their place as works of reference in the 

 library of every country house. Each volume will be written by a well-known 

 authority on the subject with which it deals, and the whole library will be under 

 the supervision of His Grace the Duke of Bedford. 



AVERY important feature of this Library will be the large number of beautiful 

 Illustrations which each volume will contain. For the most part these will be 

 reproduced in colour, and carefully printed on the best art paper ; but care will be 

 taken that each book shall be as light as possible to handle. 



IN these volumes, each of which will be complete in itself, all the pedantry of 

 science will be excluded, so that imperfect knowledge may not be concealed 

 under scientific terms. They will not be merely popular gossip about scientific 

 subjects, but rather science expounded in popular language. In short, while each 

 volume will be scientifically accurate, it will not be technically scientific, though 

 where occasion arises appendices will be added, containing the most up-to-date 

 scientific classification, etc., and all the scientific terms. 



" The Editor of the Woburn Library has recognised the full value 

 of the highest form of colour printing by means of photography. 

 The Duke of Bedford has not given the name of his chief seat to this 

 library without the determination to make it worthy of the honour." 

 — Daily News. 



TWO VOLUMES by F. EDWARD HULME, F.L.S., F.S.A., 



Vice-President of the Selbome Society, 

 Author of " Familiar Wild Flowers," etc., etc. 



WILD FRUITS OF THE COUNTRY SIDE 



With 36 Coloured Plates by the Author, and an 

 Introduction by His Grace the Duke of Bedford. 



"A charming book, copiously illustrated with very attractive drawings. . . . Avery 

 pleasing and interesting volume." — Spectator. 



" If each volume is as ably and carefully written and illustrated as the one before us, 

 the series will prove a distinct acquisition both to. the student and to the ordinary lover of 

 nature. The subject is treated quite exhaustively, and yet in such a pleasant and colloquial 

 manner that the reader is apt to forget that he is perusing a really scientific work on natural 

 history."— r-i^ World. 



"A very attractive book." — The Times. 



