IMPORTANT WORKS 



ON 



NATURAL HISTORY, 



PUBLISHED BY A. FULLARTON AND CO. GLASGOW ; 

 MACLACHLAN & STEWART, EDINBURGH; 

 AND ORR & SMITH, LONDON. 



I. A HISTORY of the EARTH and ANIMATED 



NATURE. By Oliver Goldsmith. With copious NOTES, embracing 

 accounts of New discoveries in NATURAL HISTORY. To which is subjoined 

 an APPENDIX, containing explanations of Technical Terms, and an outline 

 of the Cuvierian and other systems. By^ Captain Thomas Brown, F.L. S., 

 M.W. S., M.K.S., President of the Royal Physical Society, and Author of 

 * Biographical Sketches of Horses, Dogs, and Quadrupeds,' 4 vols, royal 18mo. 

 £l. 18s. boards, with a supplementary volume, price 10s. boards. 



This work is illustrated by beautiful Engravings on Steel, by Mr Robert 

 Scott ; and comprises nearly eleven hundred figures of Quadrupeds, Buds, 

 Fishes, Reptiles, Shells, Insects, &c. ; being more complete in this respect 

 than any book of the same kind hitherto published in Europe. In the Quadru- 

 peds, Birds, and Shells, an example of all the Genera of Cuvier, Temminck, 

 Lamarck, and Brown are given. 



** That Captain Brown is perfectly qualilied to discharge the duties of a nar- 

 rator, his previous books have sufficiently shewn — Oue principal object in noticing 

 this book at all, however, is to point it out as a singular instance of cheap literature, 

 even in an age when every thing literary is marvellously cheap." — Edinburgh 

 Observer. 



II. THE ZOOLOGIST'S TEXT BOOK, wherein are 



given the whole Generic Characters of tha Animal Kingdom, wkh a description 

 of one species of each, according to the systems of Baron Cuvier, Temminck, 

 Lamarck, Latreille, Lacepede Geofl&'oy St Hillaue, &c. &c. Illustrated by 

 about eleven hundred figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Shells, 

 &c., comprehending an example of every Genus, Sub-Genus, and Section 

 of the above authors. Engraved on Steel by Mr Scott. By Captain Thomas 

 Brown, President of the Royal Physical Society, &c. 



This book is illustrated by one hundred and eight plates, comprehending 

 upwards of eleven hundred and fifty figui'cs of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Insects, 



