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BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MR. VAN VOORST.

Hewitson's Exotic Butterflies. Vol. I., containing 398 Coloured Figures of new or rare species, Five Guineas.

"In this work there is a truthfulness of outline, an exquisite delicacy of pencilling, a brilliancy and transparency of colouring, that has rarely been equalled and probably never surpassed."-The President in his Address to the Entomological Society, 1856.

Of Vol. II., Eight Parts (21 to 28 of the entire work) are at this time published, 5s. each.

Manual of British Butterflies and Moths. By H. T. STAINTON, Editor of The Entomologist's Annual.' 12mo. To be completed in 30 Numbers at 3d. each; 23 at this time published.

Natural History of the Tineina.

By H. T. STAINTON, Coloured Plates. Vol. I. to III. 8vo, cloth, each 12s. 6d.

Entomologist's Companion (to the Tineina). By H. T. STAINTON. Second Edition, 12mo, 3s.

Geodephaga Britannica: a Monograph of the Carnivorous Ground-Beetles Indigenous to the British Isles. By J. F.

DAWSON, LL.B. 8vo, with Three Coloured Plates, 12s.

Insecta Maderensia; being an Account of the Insects of the Islands of the Madeiran Group. By T. VERNON WOLLASTON, M.A., F.L.S. 4to, with Thirteen Coloured Plates of Beetles, £2 2s.

BOTANY.

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Weeds and Wild Flowers. By LADY WILKINSON. 8vo, with Coloured Engravings and Woodcuts. 10s. 6d. Manual of British Botany; containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns, arranged according to their Natural Orders. By C. C. BABINGTON, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 12mo, the Fourth Edition, with many additions and corrections, 10s. 6d., cloth. Elementary Course of Botany; Structural, Physiological, and Systematic. With a brief Outline of the Geographical and Geological Distribution of Plants. By ARTHUR HENFREY, F.R.S., L.S., &c., Professor of Botany in King's College, London, Examiner in Natural Science to the Royal Military Academy and to the Society of Arts. Illustrated by upwards of 500 WoodPost 8vo, 12s. 6d.

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Also by Professor Henfrey.

Vegetation of Europe, its Conditions and Causes. Foolscap 8vo, 5s.

Principles of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Vegetable Cell. By HUGO VON MOHL. Translated, with the author's permission, by ARTHUR HENFREY, F.R.S., &c. 8vo, with an Illustrative Plate and numerous Woodcuts, 7s. 6d.

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Rudiments of Botany. A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Plants. With Illustrative Woodcuts. Second Edition, foolscap 8vo, 3s. 6d.

A Set of Six Coloured Diagrams illustrative of the Rudiments of Botany; for Schools and Lectures. 15s.

History of British Forest-Trees. By PRIDEAUX JOHN SELBY, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &c. Each species is illustrated by a portrait of some well-known or fine specimen, as a head-piece; the leaf, florification, seed-vessels, or other embellishments tending to make the volume ornamental or useful, are embodied in the text or inserted as tail-pieces. 8vo, with nearly 200 Illustrations, £1 88.

Manual Flora of Madeira and the adjacent Islands of
Porto Santo and the Dezertas. By R. T. LOWE, M.A. 12mo.
Part I. Thalamifloræ, 3s. 6d.

Primitiæ et Novitia Faunæ et Flora Maderæ et Portus
Sancti. Two Memoirs on the Ferns, Flowering Plants, and
Land Shells of Madeira and Porto Santo. By R. T. LOWE,
M.A. 12mo, 6s. 6d., boards (150 copies printed).

Growth of Plants in closely Glazed Cases. By N. B.
WARD, F.R.S., F.L.S. Second Edition, Illustrated. Post 8vo, 6s.

The Sea-Weed Collector's Guide; containing plain Instruc-
tions for Collecting and Preserving; and a List of all the known
Species and Localities in Great Britain. By J. COCKS, M.D.
Foolscap 8vo, 2s. 6d.

Manual of the British Marine Algæ, containing Generic and
Specific Descriptions of all the known British Species of Sea-
Weeds, with Plates to illustrate all the Genera. By W. H.
HARVEY, M.D., M.R.I.A., Keeper of the Herbarium of the
University of Dublin, and Professor of Botany to the Royal
Dublin Society. 8vo, £1 1s.; Coloured Copies, £1 11s. 6d.

Nereis Boreali-Americana; or, Contributions towards a History of the Marine Algae of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America. By W. H. HARVEY, M.D., M.R.I.A., &c. Royal 4to, with 50 Coloured Plates, £3 3s.

Terra Lindisfarnensis. The Natural History of the Eastern Borders. By GEORGE JOHNSTON, M.D., &c., &c. This volume embraces the Topography and Botany; and gives the popular Names and Uses of the Plants, and the Customs and Beliefs which have been associated with them. The chapter on the Fossil Botany of the district is contributed by GEORGE TATE, F.G.S. Illustrated with a few Woodcuts and 15 Plates, 8vo, 10s. 6d.

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History of British Ferns. By EDWARD NEWMAN. Comprising under each Species, Figures, detailed Descriptions, an ample List of Localities, and minute Instructions for Cultivating. 8vo, 18s.

Walks after Wild Flowers; or the Botany of the Bohereens. By RICHARD DOWDEN. Foolscap 8vo, 4s. 6d.

Synopsis of the British Diatomacea; with Remarks on their Structure, Functions, and Distribution; and Instructions for Collecting and Preserving Specimens. By the Rev. WILLIAM SMITH. The Plates by TUFFEN WEST. In 2 vols. royal 8vo; Vol. I. 21s.; Vol. II. 30s.

CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY. A Manual of Chemical Analysis (Qualitative). By A. B. NORTHCOTE, F.C.S., and ARTHUR H. CHURCH, F.C.S. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d.

Handbook of Chemical Manipulation. By C. GREVILLE WILLIAMS, Principal Assistant in the Laboratory of the University of Edinburgh. Post 8vo, with very numerous Woodcut Illustrations, 15s.

Elementary Course of Geology, Mineralogy, and Physical Geography. By DAVID T. ANSTED, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c., Consulting Mining Engineer, Honorary Fellow of King's College, London, Lecturer on Mineralogy and Geology at the H.E.I.C. Mil. Sem. at Addiscombe, late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. A Second Edition, post 8vo, with many Illustrations, 12s.

The Ancient World. By Professor ANSTED. Second Edition, post 8vo, 10s. 6d., with 149 Illustrations.

"The work may be described as an outline of the history of vegetable and animal life upon the globe, from the early age when there were only sea-weeds and marine invertebrates as yet in existence, down to the era when the mammals received among them the king of species, Man. By his intimate acquaintance with the subject, and power of arrangement and description, Professor Ansted succeeds in producing a narration, which tells in its entire range like a romance."-Manchester Examiner. Gold-Seeker's Manual. By Professor ANSTED. Foolscap 8vo, 3s. 6d.

Geologist's Text-Book. Chiefly intended as a Book of Reference for the Geological Student. By Professor ANSTED. Foolscap 8vo, 3s. 6d.

The Ground beneath us; its Geological Phases and Changes. Three Lectures on the Geology of Clapham and the neighbourhood of London generally. By JOSEPH PRESTWICH, F.R.S., F.G.S. &c. 8vo, 3s. 6d. sewed.

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Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland.
By ROBERT PHILIPS GREG, F.G.S., and WILLIAM G.
LETTSOM. 8vo, with numerous Woodcuts, 15s.

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History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds. By Professor OWEN. This volume is designed as a companion to that by Professor Bell on the (Recent Mammalia) British Quadrupeds and Cetacea.' 8vo, with 237 Illustrations, £1 11s. 6d., or large paper (royal 8vo), £3 3s.

Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth (Mylodon robustus). With Observations on the Osteology, Natural Affinities, and probable Habits of the Megatherioid Quadrupeds in general. By RICHARD OWEN, F.R.S., &c. 4to. £1 12s. 6d.

Geological Inquiry respecting the Water-bearing Strata of the Country around London, with reference especially to the Water Supply of the Metropolis, and including some Remarks on Springs. By JOSEPH PRESTWICH, Jun., F.G.S., &c. 8vo, with a Map and Woodcuts, 8s. 6d.

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Memoirs of Hugh E. Strickland, M.A., Deputy Reader of
Geology in the University of Oxford. By SIR WILLIAM
JARDINE, Bart.; with a selection from his Printed and other
Scientific Papers. One Vol. Royal 8vo, 36s., Illustrated by Maps,
Geological Sections, Plates and Woodcuts.

Omphalos. An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot. By P. H. GOSSE, F.R.S. In this work the author aims to overthrow the received conclusions of geologists as to the remote antiquity of the earth, by the enunciation and illustration of a grand physical law, hitherto unrecognized, the law of Prochronism in organic creation. Post 8vo, pp. 376, with 56 Illustrations on wood, 10s. 6d.

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WORKS ON GENERAL NATURAL

HISTORY, &c.

The Aquarian Naturalist: a Manual for the Sea-side. By Pro-
fessor T. RYMER JONES, F.R.S. Post 8vo, 544 pp., with
8 Coloured Plates, price 18s.

Humble Creatures: the Earthworm and the Common
Housefly. In Eight Letters. By JAMES SAMUELSON, as-
sisted by J. A. HICKS, M.D. Lond., F.L.S. With Microscopic
Illustrations by the Authors. Post 8vo, price 3s. 6d.

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The Micrographic Dictionary: a Guide to the Examination and Investigation of the Structure and Nature of Microscopic Objects. By Dr. GRIFFITH and Professor HENFREY. Illustrated by 41 Plates, each with numerous Figures, some coloured, and 816 Woodcuts, 777 pages, 8vo, £2 5s.

Observations in Natural History; with a Calendar of Periodic Phenomena. By the Rev. LEONARD JENYNS, M.A., F.L.S. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d.

Observations in Meteorology; relating to Temperature, the Winds, Atmospheric Pressure, the Aqueous Phenomena of the Atmosphere, Weather Changes, &c.; being chiefly the results of a Meteorological Journal kept for 19 years at Swaffham Bulbeck, in Cambridgeshire, and serving as a guide to the climate of that part of England. By the Rev. LEONARD JENYNS, M.A., F.L.S., &c., late Vicar of Swaffham Bulbeck. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d.

Practical Meteorology. By JOHN DREW, Ph.D., F.R.A.S., Corresponding Member of the Philosophical Institute of Bâle. Foolscap 8vo, with 10 Illustrative Plates, 5s.

Natural History of Animals: being the substance of Three Courses of Lectures delivered before the Royal Institution of Great Britain. By T. RYMER JONES, F.R.S., Professor of Zoology in King's College, London. Post 8vo. Vol. I. with 105 Illustrations; Vol. II. with 104 Illustrations, 12s. each.

General Outline of the Organization of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy. By T. RYMER JONES, F.R.S., Professor of Comparative Anatomy in King's College, London; late Fullerian Professor of Physiology to the Royal Institution of Great Britain, &c. &c. Second Edition, 8vo, 884 pages, 400 Woodcuts, £1 11s. 6d.

First Steps to Anatomy. By JAMES L. DRUMMOND, M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Belfast Royal Institution. With 12 Illustrative Plates. 12mo, 5s.

Great Artists and Great Anatomists: a Biographical and Philosophical Study. By R. KNOX, M.D., F.R.S.E. Post 8vo, 6s. 6d.

Anatomical Manipulation; or, The Methods of pursuing Practical Investigations in Comparative Anatomy and Physiology. Also an Introduction to the Use of the Microscope, &c. By ALFRED TULK, M.R.C.S., M.E.S.; and ARTHUR HENFREY, F.L.S., M.Micr.S. With Illustrative Diagrams. Foolscap 8vo, 9s.

Familiar Introduction to the Study of Polarized Light. By CHARLES WOODWARD, F.R.S. 8vo, Illustrated, 3s. Second Edition.

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