XVI. 
ILLUSTKATIONS OE BRITISH MYCOLOGY; containing 
Figures and Descriptions of the Funguses of interest and 
novelty indigenous to Britain. By Mrs. Hussey. 
“ This talented lady and her sister were in the first instance induced to draw 
some of the more striking Fungi, merely as picturesque objects. Their collection 
of drawings at length became important from their number and accuracy, and 
a long continued study of the nutritive properties of Fungi has induced the 
former to lay the results of her investigations before the public, under the 
form of illustrations of the more useful and interesting species. The figures 
are so faithful that there can be no difficulty in at once determining with 
certainty the objects they are intended to represent ; and the observations, espe- 
cially those of the culinary department, will be found of much interest to the 
general reader, and we doubt not that our tables will in consequence receive 
many a welcome addition ; while, from the accuracy of the figures, there will be 
no danger, with ordinary attention, of making any serious blunder.” — Gardeners’ 
Chronicle. 
In one handsome quarto volume, bound in cloth and gilt. 
With 90 handsome coloured drawings. Price ^l. 1 2s. 6^?. 
XVII. 
THE DODO AND ITS KINDRED ; or, the History, Affinities, 
and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaiee, and other extinct 
birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon. By 
H. E. Strickland, Esq., M.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., President of 
the Ashmolean Society, and A. G. Melville, M.D., M.R.C.S. 
“ The labom’ expended on this book and the beautiful manner in which it is 
got up render it a work of great interest to the naturalist. * * It is a model 
of how such subjects should be treated. We know of few more elaborate and 
careful pieces of comparative anatomy than is given of the bead and foot by 
Dr. Melville. The dissection is accompanied by lithographic plates, creditable alike 
to the Artist and the Printer.” — Athenmim. 
“ A piece of ornithological biography which seems singularly to combine the 
familiar with the fabulous. Thanks to an accomplished and persevering natu- 
ralist of our own day, we have now all the facts, and most of the fancies, laid 
before us in a splendid royal quarto volume just published, with numerous plates, 
devoted to the history and illustration of ‘ the Dodo and its Kindred.’ The 
author has produced one of the best and most interesting monographs with which 
it is om' fortune to be acquainted. * We beg to call attention very espe- 
cially to Plates viii. and ix., as the most beautiful examples of lithographic art, 
applied to natural history, which we have yet seen executed in this country.” — 
Blackvjood’ s Magazine^ Jan. 1, 1849. 
One vol. royal quarto, with eighteen plates and numerous 
wood illustrations. Price 21<s. 
