Notices of New Books. 



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Natural-History Books recently Published. 



The Aquarian Naturalist: a Manual for the Sea-side. By Thomas 

 Rymer Jones, F.R.S., Professor of Natural History and Com- 

 parativ^e Anatomy in King's College, London, &c. London : 

 John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row. 1858. 



The work is most agreeably and popularly written. It contains 

 524 pp. fcap. 8vo., and 8 plates, printed in colours by the process 

 called chromolithography. It treats only of salt-water objects, and a 

 second volume by the same author is advertised as shortly to be pub- 

 lished, similarly illustrated, intituled ' The Freshwater Series of the 

 Aquarian Naturalist; being the Natural History of the Animal In- 

 habitants of our Streams and Ponds, adapted to the purposes of the 

 Aquarium.' The price of the published work is 18^. 



The Natural History of the Tineina. Vol. III., containing Ela- 

 chista Part I., Tischeria Part I. By H. T. Stainton, assisted 

 by Professor Zeller, J. W. Douglas and Professor Frey'. 

 London : John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row. Paris : Deyrolle, 

 Rue de la Monnaie, 19. Berlin : E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 

 Zimmerstrasse 84, 85. 1858. 



This volume is the third of a series, and written in four languages 

 arranged in parallel columns, — English, French, German and Latin. 

 It contains 270 pp., demy 8vo., and 8 plates, mostly drawn and entirely 

 engraved by Mr. E. W. Robinson, and beautifully coloured. These 

 plates leave nothing to be desired, and do great credit to the artists 

 who have executed them. The price of the volume is 12^ 6d. 



A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the 

 Hon. East India Company, By Thomas Horsfield, M. and 

 Ph.D., F.R.S., Keeper of the Company's Museum, and Frederic 

 Moore, Assistant. Vol. I. Printed by order of the Directors. 

 London : W. H. Allen & Co., 7, Leadenhall Street. 1858. 



The work is the first of a proposed series. It contains 280 pp. 

 demy 8vo, and 18 plates, plain or coloured; these illustrate details of 



