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LIST OF WOEKS 

 PUBLISHED BY L. KEEVE & CO. 



REEVE AND CO.'S NEW SERIES OF NATURAL 

 HISTORY FOR BEGINNERS. 



* # * A good introductory series of books 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 figures, 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 in 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 completeness. 



The following are now ready:— 

 BRITISH BEETLES; an Introduction to the Study of our 



Indigenous Coleoptera. By E. C. Rye. Crown 8vo, 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, 10.?. 6d. 



BRITISH BEES; an Introduction to the Study of our Na- 

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

 By W. E. Shtjckakd. 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, 10.?. 6d. 



