22 REEVE AND GO.'s PUBLICATIONS. 



NEW SERIES OF NATURAL HISTORY FOR 

 BEGINNERS. 



*«* A good introductory aeries of boolts on Natural History for the use of 

 students and amateurs is still a desideratum. Those at present in use have 

 been too much compiled from antiquated sources ; while the iigures, copied 

 in many instances from sources equally antiquated, are far from accurate, the 

 colouring of them having become degenerated through the adoption, for the 

 sake of cheapness, of mechanical processes. 



The present series will be entirely the result of original research carried to its 

 most advanced point; and the figures, which will be chiefly engraved on steel, by 

 the artist most highly renowned iu each department for his technical knowledge 

 of the subjects, will in all cases be drawn from actual specimens, and coloured 

 separately by hand. 



Each work will treat of a department of Natural History sufficiently limited 

 in extent to admit of a satisfactory degree of fulness ; a closer study of a limited 

 subject being both more interesting, and preferable as a mental discipline, than a 

 superficial acquaintance with a wider range. 



The following are now ready: — 

 BRITISH BEETLES ; an Introduction to the Study of our 



Indigenous Coleopteka. By E. C. Rye. Crown 8to, 16 Coloured 

 Steel Plates, comprising Figures of nearly 100 Species, engraved from 

 Natural Specimens, expressly for the work, by E. W. Robinson, and 11 

 Wood-Engravings of Dissections by the Author, 10s. dd. 



BRITISH BEES ; an Introd action to the Study of our Na- 

 tural History and EcoiTomy of the Bees indigenous to the British Isles. 

 By W. E. Shuckard. Crown 8vo, 16 Coloured Steel Plates, containing 

 nearly 100 Figures, engraved from Natural Specimens, expressly for the 

 work, by E. W. Robinson, and Woodcuts of Dissections, lOi. dd. 



BRITISH SPIDERS ; an Introduction to the Study of the 



AraneiU/E found in Great Britain and Ireland. By E. F. Stavelet. 

 Crown Svo, 16 Plates, containing Colonvcd Figures of nearly 100 Species, 

 and 40 Diagrams, showing the number and position of the eyes iu various 

 Genera, drawn expressly for the work by Tupfen West,' and 44 Wood- 

 Engravings, Ifl*. 6rf. 



BRITISH PERNS ; au Introduction to the Study of the Perns, 



Ltcopods, and EtjuiSETA indigenous to the British Isles. With Chapters 

 on the Structure, Propagation, Cultivation, Diseases, Uses, Preservation, 

 and Distribution of Ferns. By Maeqaket Plues. Crown Svo, 16 Coloured 

 Plates, drawn expressly for the work by W. Fitch, and 55 Wood-Engrav- 

 ings, 10,!. 6rf. 



