BOOKS FOR NATURE LOVERS. 



Insect Life. (New Edition in Colors.) 



By John Henry Comstock, Professor of Entomology 

 in Cornell University. With 12 full-page plates reproducing 

 Butterflies and various Insects in their natural colors, and 

 with many wood-engravings by Anna Botsford Comstock, 

 Member of the Society of American Wood-Engravers. 

 Svo. Cloth, $T.75 net; postage, 20 cents additional. 



" The arrangcmeiiL of the lessons and experiments and the advice 

 on collection and manipulation are only some of the very admirable 

 features of a v/ork that must take first place in the class to which it 

 belongs." — Philadelphia Pi't-ss, 



"Any one who will go through the work with fidelity will be 

 rewarded by a knowledge of insect life which will be of pleasure and 

 benefit to him at all seasons, and will give an increased charm to the 

 days or weeks spent each summer outside of the great cities. It is the 

 best book of its class which has yet appeared." — A'iw York Mail and 

 Express. 



The Art of Taxidermy. 



By John Rowlf.y, Chief of the Department of Taxi- 

 dermy in the American Musetim of Natural History. Finely 

 illustrated. i2mo. Cloth, $2.00. 



Contents. — Collecting. Tools and Materials, Casting. 

 Birds. Mammals. Fish, Reptiles, and Crustaceans. Skele- 

 tons. The Reproduction of Foliage for Groups. 



" Mr. Rowley will long be gratefully remembered by taxidermists, 

 amateurs, and others, for the care he has used in thus meeting a long- 

 felt want." — Bangor (Me.) Sportsman. 



" The book is not an elaborate treatise upon the abstract principles 

 which lie at the foundation of artistic taxidermy, but is rather a com- 

 pendium full of practical hints and suggestions, recipes, and formulas 

 for the working taxidermist." — The Dial. 



D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. 



