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SOILS, How to Handle and Improve Them. 

 By S. W. Fletcher. ^Vitb move than 100 

 Illustrations. Demy 8vo, about 350 pages. 

 Price 8s. 6d. net. 

 Every farmer, every man wlio has a country 



place, every person who has anything to do with 



the soil will find this an interesting, practical, 



specific guide to the whole subject. 



SECOND EDITION. 



INDIAN FOREST TREES : an Account of 



Trees, Shrubs, Woody Climbers, Bamboos and 

 Palms. Indigenous or Commonly Cultivated in 

 the British Indian Empire. By Sir Dietrich 

 Brandis, K.C. I.E., assisted bylndian Foresters. 

 With many Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net. 

 Xatiire says:— "Sir Dietrich Brandis is much 

 to be congratulated on the completion of this very 

 important work. . . . and its appearance will be 

 hailed by all Indian forest ofl&cers and by many 

 others who are interested in the botany of that 

 country." 



FRUIT RECIPES : a Manual of the Food 

 Values of Fruits, and Nine Hundred different 

 Ways of Using Them. By Riley M. Fletcher 

 Berry. Illustrated from Photographs. Large 

 crown Svo. 7s. 6(7. n.t. 



THE KINGDOM OF MAN. Bv E. Ray 



Lankester, M.A., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 

 Demy Svo. With about 63 Illustrations. Price 

 3s-. 6cl. net. 



EUROPEAN ANIMALS: their Geological 



History and Geographical Distribution. By 

 R. F. Scharff, B.Sc, Ph.D., F.L.S. Large 

 crown Svo. Illustrated. 7s. 6(Z. net. 

 The subject which Dr. Scharff discusses appeals 

 not only to the Biologist and Geologist, but as a 

 contribution to the Geographical histoi-y of Europe 

 this work will arouse the interest of a much wider 

 circle of readers. 



THE BIRD : its Form and Function. By 

 C. William Beebe, Curator of Ornithology of 

 the New York Zoological Park; Author of 

 "Two Bird Lovers in Mexico." With over 

 370 Illustrations, chiefly photographed from 

 life by the Author. Small 4to. Price 1-ls. net. 

 Pall Mall Gazette.—" This book is no common 

 one. We have here a valuable scientific resume 

 of the latest knowledge, biological, physiological, 

 anatomical, concerning birds in general and 

 species in particular, presented in language popu- 

 lar in the best sense, easily intelligible to those 

 who have had no laboratory or museum training, 

 and illustrated by nearly 400 plates and figures."' 



THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY AND THE 



ENCLOSURE OF COMMON FIELDS. By 



Gilbert Slater, M.A., Mayor of Woolwich. 



With an Introduction by Earl Carringtox. 



Demy Svo. Illustrated, 10s. 6d. net. 

 The enclosure of common fields and the passing 

 away of the English Village Community to make 

 room for the agricultural organisation prevailing 

 to-day, IS a subject not merely of historical in- 

 terest, but one which touches verv closely some of 

 the most vital national problems of the twentieth 

 century. 



LONDON PARKS AND GARDENS. By 

 the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil. Illustrated in 

 Colour and Pen and Ink Drawing by Lady 

 Victoria Manners. 



WASPS, Social and Solitary. By GeOPge 

 W. Peckham and Elizabeth G. "Peckham. 



With an Introduction by John Bcrrocghs 

 and Illustrations by James H. Emerton. 

 Crown Svo. 6s. net. 



Lord Ateburt, in the Da ily Chron icle.—" Their 

 whole book is most interesting." 



Athencpum. — " This is a book of the fields ; it is 

 one of those delightful narratives with which the 

 name of Fabre is associated." 



Daily Telegraph. — "This book is at once a 

 delight and a revelation, the most charming 

 monograph on a natural history subject that we 

 haye had occasion to notice in recent years." 



AMERICAN INSECTS. By Professor 



Vernon L. Kellogg. With many original 

 Illustrations by Mary Wellmax. Square Svo. 

 '21s. net. 



The chapters on insects and flowers, colour and 

 pattern and their uses, insects and disease, are of 

 great interest. 



Nature. — " The work is probably the best that 

 exists for anyone desiring an introductory work 

 on North American insects compressed into a 

 single volume." 



"An admirable work on general entomology 

 that cannot fail to at once arrest the attention 

 and rivet the interest of the merest tjTo." 



THE PRINCIPLES OF MICROSCOPY: 



being an Introduction to Work with the Mi- 

 croscope. By Sir A. E. Wright, M.D., F.R.S., 

 D.Sc. Dublin, Pathologist to St. Mary's Hos- 

 pitT-1, Paddington. With many Illustrations 

 and Coloured Plates. Royal Svo. 21s. net. 



The general scope of this important work is 

 the technique of the microscope, to the study of 

 which the author has devoted many years. 



K'^ou-leclae—" Sir A. E.Wright has done much- 

 needed work." 



THE NATURE STUDENT'S NOTE BOOK. 



Bv Rev. Canon Steward, M.A.. and Alice E. 

 Mitchell. Containing Nature Notes, Diary, 

 Classification of Plants, Trees, Animals, and 

 Insects in detail. Interleaved with writing 

 paper. Fcp. Svo. 2s. net. 



By JOHN BURROUGHS. 



FAR AND NEAR: Studies of Birds and 

 other Animals in Alaska and elsewhere. Crown 

 Svo. 5s. net. 



WAYS OF NATURE. Crovm Svo. 5s. net. 



Evening Standard.— ' Fnll of profound and 

 charming insight." 



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