ALPINE PLANTS. 
Seconb Series. Containing Eifty-four Coloured Plates, witli one or two 
Figures on each Plate. Descriptions and aocnratoly-ooloured Figures 
(drawn and engraved expressly for this Work) of tho most striking and 
beautiful of the Alpine Plants. Edited by David Woostek. Price £1 6s. 
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-coloured Plates. In Two Volumes, super-royal 8vo., £2 10s. 
‘It is a book to read, to ponder, to mark, learn, and inwardly digest. . . . Let those who want to 
know the “moral” of mosses enquire vnthin the covers of the volume. He will thei^ find that 
these humble plants have their uses, their virtues, and their mission .' — Morning AdvQrii&cr. 
HISTORY OF THE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 
By Jonathan Couch, F.I^.S.. Illustrated with 256 carefully coloured 
Tlates. New Edition, in Four Volumes, super-royal 8vo., price £l 4s. 
‘The author, who is well known as one of the first practical authorities on British fishes, 
has for fifty years been obseiwing, noting, atid drawing, with his own pencil, the va>ious fish 
which live in British waters— a vast labour, in which he has been assisted by sonentific friends 
living in various portions of the United Kingdom. Tho drawings are beautifiilly coloured^ to 
life, and some of the portraits (especially of the dog-fish) are really marvellous, rendering 
the’ recognition of a fish a work of the gi-eatest ease.'— TAe Field. 
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 Syme,) LL.D. F.L.S. &c. With 
Popular Descriptions of tbo Uses, History, and Iraditions of each 1 lant, by 
Mi4. Lankestek, Author of ‘Wild Flowers Worth Notice,’ ‘The British 
Ferns’ &c The Figures by J. E. Sowekbt, James Sowerbt, F.L.S., 
J. De C. Sowerby, F.L.S., and J. AV. Salter, A.L.S. In Eleven Volumes, 
with 1824 full-page coloured plates, super-royal 8vo. {For prices see p. 7.) 
A''ol. XII. containing the Cryptogamons Plants anil an Index to the whole 
work. In Seven Parts, 6s. each. Fart 1. immediately. 
‘Under the editoi-Bhip of T. Boswell Symo, F.LS., asrfsted by Wra-LankeBter,') Sowerby a 
Pn<d£b Bomnt ” when finished, wUl be cKbanative of the subjeot, and worthy ot the br,anch 
BngliBti Botany, oyer the charmingly exeonted luind-ooloured plates 
ofSrpli wMch •enoumbeYthc^e volmnos with pchA^ho reader cannot .Imlp being 
Ifcndtlf tae beauty of many of the ^-ttyiSlT“?ou 7 oti:' thl^"^^ 
step, ffc if wm b““ent f^aTate that the 'work is pleigedto 
flowers presented m tnaae pagea, ami ii y,.. m. ..y , 7 ,;,,, Times 
contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these isles. -Urn Iwiu. 
a Idl'cl X7fe7bftaifirscfenol7 cuSed,7nf thiftuSf of ^fnSife iZL,7hh7u 
their faEcinatiug associations, held dear. —Amnceuni. 
,,.r .V . J oTid irciiracv of the coloured figures. They are drawn 
‘Nothing can exceed the beauty ‘ -im'ifceur will recognise who has vainly puzzled over 
life-aize-im advantage winch enriched with delicate delinea- 
wh\c?"AppcnI to be remarkable in its form-and 
