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UNIFORM WITH “THE OCTAVO NATURE-PRINTED BRITISH FERNS.” 

Now ready, handsomely bound in cloth, royal 8vo., price 21. 2s., containing Seventy 
Coloured Nature Prints, Vol. I. of The 
NATURE-PRINTED 
BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. 
WITH. ENGRAVED MAGNIFIED DISSECTIONS OF THE 
WHOLE SPECIES DESCRIBED IN THE VOLUME. 
THE DESCRIPTIONS 
Br WILLIAM G. JOHNSTONE ax» ALEXANDER CROALL. 
AS 
NATURE-PRINTED BY HENRY BRADBURY. 
Tur NATURE-PRINTED BRITISH SEA-WEEDS will form four handsome 
volumes, in royal 8vo, consisting of about 220 plates, with the necessary letter-press, 
extending to about 900 pages. 
The Text will be made as popular as possible, without the sacrifice of scientific 
accuracy, and will comprise in addition to a complete History of each species, a care- 
fully prepared Synoptical Table of the Orders and Genera, and a systematical Synopsis 
of the Species. The latter half of the concluding volume will be devoted to a general 
view of the Structure and Uses of the Sea-Weed Family, and a Sketch of their Classifi- 
cation and Distribution, together with ample and intelligible Instructions for their 
Cultivation, for their Preservation in the Herbarium, and for their Preparation as 
objects for the Microscope. A Glossary of the technical terms used in the Work will 
also be given. 
NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 
Athenceum,—‘‘ For this kind of work Nature-Printing is exactly adapted. Every 
delicate and inimitable ramification is most attractively and accurately represented. The fifty- 
six plates in this volumé can scarcely be surpassed, and have not, as far as we know, been 
equalled. Those who will not give an hour to the letter-press may find more than an hour's 
delight in the plates. For ourselves we have found them pleasing, and still pleasing during 
several inspections. The volume is handsomely got up, and will make a very attractive 
drawing-room table book at home or at the sea-side. Ifthe three succeeding volumes are as 
beautifully illustrated, we shall be glad to welcome them.” 
Morning Post.—“ This first volume holds out the promise of a splendid work. It 
begins with the rhodospermec, or red-weed genera, of which it describes the first series; these 
are the desmiospermec, or thread-seeded, of which each sporiferous nucleus, or seed vessel, is 
attached by a tufted spore-thread to a cellular placenta. The numerous species into which these 
are divided are accurately classed, and the history of each is fully given ; the minute, and, in 
some “cases, almost imperceptible distinctions which the practised eye of science has detected 
are clearly defined. But the most valuable part of the work are the ““nature-printed ” copies . 
of most of the specimens described. These delineations are so perfect that they almost supply 

_ the place of the originals themselves, and will bear the highest magnifying power; they reflect 
great credit on the skill and attention of the artist.” 
Gardeners’ Chronicle.—‘‘ To nothing is Nature-Printing more suitable than to the 
exquisitely graceful race of sea-weeds, which are capable of so completely giving up their forms 
to paper, in all the most minute ramifications, that it requires a very good eye to distinguish 
the original from its impression.” : 
Chambers Journal.—'*On opening this volume, one is indeed apt to imagine that the 
actual plants are there; and it is only on a more careful inspection that we become satisfied that 
it is not really so, but that they are merely represented by a wonderful process of art. The 
volume is like a portion of a museum devoted to the illustration of a particular branch of natural 
history. "The process by which the pictures are made is such as to insure their perfect accuracy. 
The truth of nature cannot have been misrepresented through the mistake of an artist, and the 
actual reality is before us, just as if we looked upon the original specimen itself. It is not easy to 
over-estimate the advantage likely to result to science from this multiplication of specimens, as it 
may be termed, from the opportunity thus given to the young botanist to compare species, and, 
ec extent, to examine specimens even of the rarest ones for himself, and in his own 
abode. 
«> Volume II. will be published early in October. Volumes III. and IV. at further 
intervals of about three months. The price of the volumes will be 2l. 2s. each. 

LONDON : BRADBURY AND EVANS, 11, BOUVERIE STREET. 

