CYBELE BRITANNICA. 
Votumes I. troTV. 1847—1859. 
(Price reduced to 5s. each Volume, after 1870.) 
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THE publication of this present Compendium, as a condensed 
reprint of the first three volumes of the original work, corrected to 
the more advanced knowledge of its subject in 1867—1869 (the 
years in which the three successively printed Parts were chiefly 
written), must largely supersede the scientific usefulness of the 
original work. Unless for its fourth volume, the larger edition of 
the Cybele Britannica can no longer be deemed a work necessary 
to those botanists who concern themselves with the geographical 
or topographical connexions of British Plants. The time has now 
come when the general tendency to cheapen books can be met 
without injustice to those persons who purchased the four volumes, 
or any of them singly, from the Publishers at their price of ten 
shillings a volume. 
The Author has wished to send free copies of the Compendium 
—Parts 1, 2, 3, as printed—to every Possessor of the original 
work. But it was impossible for him to ascertain exactly the 
names and addresses of all such parties, even of those at home in 
Britain ; while in one instance an application for the Compendium 
came from a purchaser of the Cybele Britannica in far distant 
China. He still invites any such Possessor of the original work 
to apply to him for a free copy of the Compendium, as a necessary 
supplement thereto. After 1870 this Compendium will be ob- 
tainable through booksellers, at the publishing price of ten 
shillings the completed volume. It will then become optional 
with topographico-botanical writers, either to test their own ob- 
servations by the condensed records given in this work, or to go 
on re-announcing in print what has been already sufficiently 
certified by others or shewn to be certainly erroneous. 
