ALPINE PLANTS. 
Seconb Seeies. Containing Fifty-four Coloured Plates, with one or two 
Figures on each Plate. Descriptions and accurately-coloured I'igures 
(drawn and engraved expres.sly for this Work) of the most striking and 
beautiful of the Alpine Plants. Edited by David Wooster. Price £l 5s. 
BRITISH MOSSES. 
Their Homes, Aspects, Structure, and Uses. Containing a Coloured Figure 
of each species, etched from Nature. By F. E. Tripp. Illustrated with 39 
beautifully-oolourod Plates. In Two Yoluinos, super-royal 8vo., £2 10s. 
. . . Let those who w.aQt to 
® mosses enquire witlun the covers of the volume. He will there find that 
these humble plants have their uses, their virtues, and their mission .’ — Morning Adve^'tiser. 
HISTORY OF THE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 
By Jonathan Couch, F.L.S.. Illustrated with 256 carefully coloured 
Plates. New Edition, in Four Volumes, super-royal 8vo., price £4 4a. 
, who is well known as one of the first practical authorities on British fishes 
has for fifty yeare been observing, noting, and drawing, with his own riencU, the various fish 
wluch live 111 British watere — a vast labour, hi which Tie lias been assisted by scientific friends 
liviiig in various portions of the United Kingdom. The drayungs are beautifully coloured to 
life, and some of the (especially of the dog-fish) are reaUy marvellous, rendering 
the recognition of a fish a work of the greatest ease.’— 27 ie Fldd. 
SOWERBY’S ENGLISH BOTANY: 
Containing a Description and Life-size coloured Drawing of every British 
Plant. Edited and brought up to the Present Standard of Scientific 
Knowledge by T. Boswell, (formerly Sxme,) LL.D. F.L.S. &c. With 
Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by 
Mrs. Lankjcster, Author of ‘Wild Flowers Worth Notice,’ ‘The British 
Ferns,’ &c. The Figures by J. E. Sowebbt, James Sowerbt, F.L.S., 
J. De C. Sowerby, F.L.S., and J. W. Salter, A.L.S. In Eleven Volumes, 
with 1824 full-page coloured plate.s, super-royal 8vo. {For prices sec p. 7.) 
Vol. XII. containing the Cryptogamous Plants .aud an Index to the whole 
work. In Seven Parts, 6s. each. Fart 1. immediately. 
‘Hndcrthe editorship of T. Boswell Syme, P.L S., assisted by Mra. Lankester, “Sowerby’s 
English Botany,” when finished, will he exhaustive of the subject, and wortliy of the branch 
of Mieiice it iUuBtrates. . . . In turning over the charmingly executed hand-coloured plates 
of British plants which enenmber these volumes with riclies, the reader cannot help being 
struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds wo tread on with careless 
stop. We cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in the spilcndid bouquet of 
flowers presented in these iiagcA and it wUl be snfflcieiit to state that the work is pledged to 
contain a figui'e of every wild flower indigenous to these isles .’ — The Times. 
‘The most complete Elora of Gre.at Britain ever brought out. This great work will find 
a place wlicrover botanic<al science Is cultivated, and the study of our native plants, with all 
theii- fascinating associations, held dear.’ — Athenceum. 
‘Nothing can exceed the beauty and accuracy of the coloured figures. They are drawn 
life-size — an advantage which eveiy young amateur will recognise who has vainly puzzled over 
drawings in whicli a cel.andine is as big as a poppy — they are enriched with delicate delinea- 
tions of fruit, petal, anther, and any organ which happens to be remarkable in its form — and 
