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ALLEN’S 
NATURALIST’S LIBRARY. 
The extraordinary favour which Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library has 
enjoyed during the last fifty years, has induced the proprietors of 
the copp-ight to issue a series of volumes, written hy some o th 
nnderthetiJof...l.^': 
1-) secured for the Editorial work the services of 
a . R. BovvDLElt SllAKPE, of the British Museum, whose TonraiM 
enceTtt pTr'i""'',' coupled with his e^peri- 
tant o and publication of many of the most injmr- 
tant of modern works on Natural .Science, entitle him to be Li 
sideied one of the fittest men in England for the task. 
eminent 
Mk. R. LYDEKKER. xM.A. (Mammalia), 
Mk. H. O. FORBES (Mammalia and Birds), 
Me. W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT (Birds), 
Me. W. F. KIRBY (Insects), 
Peofessoe R. H. TRAQUAIR, F.R.S. (Fishes), 
while the Editor undertake.s .several of the Ornithological volumes. 
Over 1,000 steel-plate engi-avings, many of them by the most 
eminent aroists of the time, will be utilised for the purpose.s of the 
piesent work, and will be produced in the highest style of modern 
chiomoh hography, m addition to which the services of Mr Keiile- 
llnstiatmn of those form ol animal life which it h.as hern found 
