Tue REV. H. N. HUTCHINSON. 
EXTINCT MONSTERS. 
A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE LARGER FORMS OF ANIMAL LIFE, 
By the Rev. H. N. HUTCHINSON. 
With numerous Illustrations by J. Sir and others, and a Preface by 
Dr. Henry WoopwarbD, F.R.S. Demy 8vo, 12s. 
Black and White says:—‘‘M. Cuvier’s vast and splendid knowledge of existing 
beasts and birds enabled him to reconstruct from a fossil skull or vertebra, sometimes from 
nothing but a single tooth, the long extinct creature in its true semblance as it had lived— 
to clothe it with flesh and skin, and show it in imagination, in the haunts in which it lived 
and moved. This, which Baron Cuvier did in graphic description of great scientific and 
literary beauty, Mr. Hutchinson, in his work on ‘Extinct Monsters,’ has done popularly 
and done learnedly, and with the accompaniment of many most admirable illustrations. 
.... This learned, interesting, and popular book.” , 
The National Observer says :—‘‘ Mr. H. N. Hutchinson, in ‘ Extinct Monsters,’ 
has produced a piece of natural history that is far more amusing than most novels, and as 
full of instruction as a book of its size can well be ; it is illustrated with many diagrams, and 
with five and twenty plates, the work of Mr. J. Smit, whose excellence is vouched for by 
no less an authority than Dr. Henry Woodward; and to the unscientific eye they are 
certainly graphic and spirited.” 
CHARLES DIXON’S WORKS. 
THE BIRDS OF OUR RAMBLES: 4 companion For 
THE COUNTRY. By CHARLES DIXON. With Illustrations by A. T. 
ELWEsS. Crown $vo, 75. 6d. 
The Saturday Review says :—‘‘ Mr. Dixon’s book is capital reading. In a series 
of rambles he discourses in a genial style of the birds of marsh or down, ot hedgerow or 
woods, of fresh water-ways or salt, of mountain or moor, and shows an acquaintance with 
bird-life no less extensive than the field of observation he investigates. Altogether, his 
volume is an excellent companion for the dweller or sojourner in the country. The descrip- 
tive table appended to each ‘ramble’ is a very useful feature of his volume. We are par- 
ticularly struck by the accuracy of his definition of the calls or ‘ alarm notes’ of birds,’ a 
subject that has caused many a good naturalist to go wrong, through a defective ear, or 
insufficient study.” 
IDLE HOURS WITH NATURE. By CHARLES 
DIXON. With Frontispiece, crown 8vo, 6s. 
Black and White says :—'‘‘ The title of Mr. Charles Dixon’s ‘Idle Hours with 
Nature’ is a somewhat exasperating misnomer. So far from being idle, he is one of the 
busiest observers of nature since White of Selborne wrote, or the modern White, Richard 
Jefferies. . .. His book is profoundly interesting. He enters into the minds and moods 
of the creatures of the air, large and small, and reasons from his observations. Mr. Dixon 
contends that his studies have an ethical value beyond their scientific one. There can be 
no doubt about it—they take us out of ourselves.” 
ANNALS OF BIRD LIFE, A YEAR-BOOK OF BRITISH ORNI- 
THOLOGY. By CHARLES DIXON. With Illustrations by C. 
WuyMPER. Crown 8vo, 75. 6d. 
The Speaker says :—‘' Delightful book. .. . In this volume five or six chapters are 
devoted, in turn, to spring, summer, autumn, and winter ; and everywhere, without thrust- 
ing upon us the dry details of science, or the jargon of the schools, a minute and pleasing 
ee aa is given of the way of birds, their migration, and the gipsy kind of life they 
lead.”’ 
THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS, 4n arremrrt To REDUCE 
AVIAN SEASON-FLIGHT TO LAW. By CHARLES DIXON. Crown 
8vo, 6s. 
The Times says :—‘‘ Mr. Charles Dixon, than whom, perhaps, no more scientific orni- 
thologist exists, formulates a theory to account for a phenomenon which has hitherto 
refused to yield up its-secret. He first dismisses rather contemptuously the view of those 
naturalists who ascribe migration to instinct. For ‘instinct’ he would substitute ‘ habit.’ 
The superiority of Mr. Dixon’s theory really resides in this, that he offers a rational ex- 
planation of the origin of this ‘instinct,’ or ‘hereditary impulse.’.... The plausible 
theory which Mr. Dixon propounds is illustrated with abundance of ornithological learning, 
anda multitude of examples which, he tells us, might have been indefinitely increased. 
Apart from his speculations, Mr. Dixon’s book is a most interesting monograph upon the 
facts and phenomena of bird migration, and we can hardly doubt that, whether his theories 
win acceptance or not, the volume in which he sets them forth will become part of the 
necessary equipment for future explorers in this department of ornithology.’? 
CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED, LONDON. 
