D, APPLETON & C0,’8 PUBLICATIONS. 
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK’S (Bart.) WORKS. 
ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS. A Record of Observations on the 
Habits of the Social Hymenoptera. International Scientific Series. 
With Colored Plates. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00. 
“Solomon, who used to fill the function of the wisest man, according to the 
catechism, advised the aoa to goto the ant. Mark Twain took Solomon’s 
advice, and found nothing but absurdity in his actions. Sir John Lubbock, on the 
other hand, spent many years in close and earnest observation of these strange 
little insects, and the record of his eee is full of interest... . ‘ When we 
see,’ he says, ‘an ant-hill, tenanted by thousands of industrious inhabitants, 
excavating chambers, forming tunnels, making roads, guarding their home, gait 
ering f feeding the young, tending their domestic animals—each one fulfilling 
its duties imdustriously and without confusion—it is difficult altogether to deny 
them a gift of reason.’ "—Philadelphia Press. 
** Altogether the book is as interesting as it is valuable ; and the lucid sim- 
plicity of its style, unencumbered by any unnecessary technicalities, is sure to 
make it a popular favorite.”—St. James's Gazette. 
“These studies, when handled by such a master as Sir John Lubbock, rise 
far above the ordinary dry treatment of such topics. The work is an effort made 
to discover what are the general, not the special, laws which govern communities 
of insects composed of inhabitants as numerous as those who live in London and 
Pekin, and who labor together in the utmost harmony for the common good. 
That there are remarkable analogies between societies of ants and human beings 
no one can doubt.”—New York Timea. 
ON THE SENSES, INSTINCTS, AND INTELLIGENCE 
OF ANIMALS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INSECTS. 
International Scientific Series. With over 100 Illustrations. 12mo. 
Cloth, $1.75. 
The author has here collected some of his observations on the senses and 
intelligence of animals, and especially of insects, and has attempted to give, very 
briefly, some idea of the organs of sense, commencing in each case with those 
of man himeelf. 
SEEDLINGS. With 684 Illustrations. 2 vols, 8vo. Cloth, $10.00. 
“Successive generations of botanists will have cause to be thankful to the 
author for this most substantial ‘contribution to our knowledge.’ Not only will 
it serve as a standard book of reference, but it will in all probability stimulate 
others to go and do likewise, according to the measure of their powers and oppor- 
tunities.”"—London Atheneum. 
“' Sir John Lubbock has already discussed the various forms of leaves and the 
causes to which the endless differences they present can be ascribed ; and in the 
two stout volumes now before us he has collected the results of his comprehensive 
observations, carried on through many years upon the forms of cotyledons or 
seed-leaves—a subject which, strangely enough, has never attracted the special 
attention of botanists, although the fact is well known that they differ, often 
remarkably, from later leaves of the same plant... . The young plant of each 
species is illustrated by a capital outline drawing from material furnished, for the 
most part, from the propagating houses of Kew, where a larger variety of plants is 
own than in any other one place in the world, and without which such a work as 
this would have been impossible.— Garden and Forest. 
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