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Selection of Works, from the Stock of William Wesley and Son,
28 Essex Street, Strand, London,
in
Natural History & Science.

^*_*^* The works are in many cases single copies in second-hand condition, but in good order.

BOTANY.

BEHRENS (Dr. J. W.) The Microscope in Botany. Complete Guide to the Use of the Microscope in Botanical Research, translated and edited by Rev. A. B. Hervey, A.M., assisted by R. H. Ward, M.D., F.R.M.S., 13 plates and 152 engravings, pp. 430, 8vo, cloth, Boston, U.S., 1885 (pub. £1 5s.), £1.

BENTHAM (G., F.R.S.) Handbook of the British Flora: Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles, 4th edition; also. Illustrations of the British Flora, drawn by W. H. Fitch and W. G. Smith, 1,306 engravings, with index, 2 vols., crown 8vo, cloth, 1878-1880, £1; also the FIRST EDITION, in larger type, 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, 1865, £3 3s.

GERARDE (J.) The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London, 1630 pp., with several Beautiful Figures of Plants on nearly every page, the Herbal (text, illustrations, and indexes) complete, and in good condition, folio, calf, 1633, £4 10s.

This copy contains the finely engraved title-page, and is in exceptionally good condition.

GRAY (Asa, LL.D., Professor of Botany in Harvard University) Synoptical Flora of North America, Vol. I., Part II., Caprifoliaceæ—Compositæ, 474 pp., royal 8vo, cloth, 1884, £1 5s.

GRAY (Asa) Synoptical Flora of North America, Vol. II. Part I., Gamopetalæ after Compositæ, 402 pp., royal 8vo, cloth, 1878, £1 5s.

HOOKER (Sir W. J.) Species Filicum; being Descriptions of the known Ferns, with 304 plates, 5 vols., 8vo, cloth, 1846-64 (pub. £6 18s.), £2 17s. 6d.

LINDSAY (W. L., M.D.) British LICHENS, an Account of their Structure, Reproduction, Uses, Distribution, and Classification, with a Bibliography, and 21 coloured plates, square 16mo, cloth, scarce, 1856, 18s.

LODDIGES (C.) Botanical Cabinet, 2,000 Fine Coloured Plates of Plants from all Countries, with a short account of each, Directions for Management, etc., 20 vols., 4to, boards, large paper and uncut, 1818-33, scarce, £20.

NYMAN (C. F.) Conspectus Floræ Europæae, seu enumeratio methodica Plantarum Phanerogamarum Europæ Indigenarum, 4 parts, and Supplement I., 8vo, half calf, gilt, and supp. in cloth, Orebro Sueciæ, 1878-84, £1 17s. 6d., or in 5 parts, sewed, £1 15s.

ORCHIDS, the Royal Family of Plants, with Illustrations from Nature, by Harriet Stewart Miner, 24 full-page coloured plates, folio, cloth, gilt edges, 1885, £2. 2s.

PARKINSON (John) Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, finely engraved title of the 'Garden of Eden,' numerous full-page engravings of plants, 612 pp. and index, folio, original calf, 1629, rare, £5 5s.

PARKINSON (John) Theatrum Botanicum: the Theater of Plants, or an HERBALL of a large extent, 1,755 pp., with fine engravings of plants on nearly every page, indexes and engraved title-page, folio, old calf, 1640, scarce, £5 5s.

SACHS (Julius) Text-Book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological, edited, with an Appendix, by S. H. Vines, F.L.S., numerous engravings, 2nd edition, royal 8vo, half morocco, Oxford, 1882, £1 6s. 6d.

SEBOTH (Joseph) Alpine Plants: the Text by F. Graf; with an Introduction on the Cultivation of Alpine Plants, by J. Petrasch; edited by A. W. Bennett, F.L.S. Complete set, 400 coloured plates, 4 vols., small 4to, half morocco, 1884 (pub. £5), £4.

SELBY (P. J., F.L.S.) History of British Forest-Trees, Indigenous and Introduced, 200 fine engravings, 8vo, cloth, scarce, 1842, £2.

CONCHOLOGY, Etc.

ALDER (Joshua) and ALBANY HANCOCK, Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca, with 82 plates, most of them coloured, complete in 7 parts, folio, boards, Ray Society, 1845-55 (pub. £9 12s.), £4 4s.

ALLMAN (G. J.) Monograph of the Fresh Water Polyzoa, including all the known Species, both British and Foreign, with 10 coloured plates, folio, boards, Ray Society, 1856, £3 3s.

CARPENTER (W. B.), assisted by W. K. PARKER and T. RUPERT JONES, Introduction to the Study of FORAMINIFERA, with 19 fine plates, folio, boards, Ray Society, 1862, £3.

ELLIS (John, F.R.S.) Natural History of the CORALLINES, and other Marine Productions of the like Kind, commonly found on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, to which is added the Description of a large Marine Polype taken near the North Pole, by the whale fishers, with frontispiece and 39 plates, 4to, half-bound, 1755, 15s.

ELLIS (John) Natural History of many Curious and Uncommon ZOOPHYTES, collected from various parts of the Globe, by the late John Ellis, Esq., F.R.S., systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander, M.D., F,R.S., with 63 plates, very finely and accurately engraved, 4to, boards, a fine uncut copy, 1786, £1 1s.

GRAY (Maria Emma) Figures of MOLLUSCOUS Animals selected from various authors, about 400 fine plates and portrait of Mrs. Gray, 5 vols., 8vo, cloth, 1842-57, £2 10s.

JEFFREYS (J. G.) British Conchology; an Account of the Mollusca which now inhabit the British Isles and surrounding Seas, with coloured figures of all the species on 147 plates, 5 vols., post 8vo, cloth, uncut, 1862-69 (pub. £5 5s.), £4 10s.; with plain plates, £3 10s.

ENTOMOLOGY.

BLACKWALL (John) History of the SPIDERS of Great Britain, with 29 fine coloured plates, 2 vols., folio, boards, Ray Society, 1861-64, £3 15s.

COX (Herbert E., M.E.S.) A Handbook of the Coleoptera or Beetles of Great Britain and Ireland, 900 pp., 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, uncut, 1874, 17s. 6d.

DONOVAN (E.) Natural History of the INSECTS of India, new edition, by J. O. Westwood, with 58 finely-engraved plates, containing upwards of 220 figures of natural size, beautifully coloured, with the Plants on which they feed, 4to, new half morocco, 1842, £3 3s.

DOUGLAS (J. W.) and J. SCOTT, British Hemiptera-Heteroptera, illustrated by 21 plates, thick 8vo, cloth, scarce, 1865 (pub. £1 11s. 6d.), £1 1s.

DRURY (Dru) Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, containing upwards of 650 coloured Figures and Descriptions of FOREIGN INSECTS, a new edition, by J. O. Westwood, 3 vols, of text in one vol., and the 3 vols, of fine COLOURED PLATES in one vol., together 2 vols., 4to, half bound, 1837 (pub. £15 15s.), £4 17s. 6d.

ENTOMOLOGIST'S ANNUALS, edited by H. T. Stainton, complete set, with coloured and plain plates, containing numerous figures, 20 vols, bound in 10 vols., 12mo, new half calf, 1855-74, £2 12s. 6d.

KIRBY W. F., Assistant in Zoological Department, British Museum) Elementary Text-book of Entomology, with 87 plates, containing over 650 figures, 8vo, cloth, 1885, 12s. 6d.

KIRBY (W. F.) British Butterflies, Moths and Beetles, with 132 figures, crown 8vo, cloth, 1s.

LANG (H. C, F.L.S.) Rhopalocera Europæ Descripta et Delineata (The Butterflies of Europe Described and Figured). With 82 plates, containing 800 coloured figures, 2 vols., royal 8vo, cloth, 1885, £3 5s.

PACKARD (A. S., M.D.) Guide to the Study of INSECTS, being a Popular Introduction to the Study of Entomology, and a Treatise on Injurious and Beneficial Insects, with Descriptions and Accounts of the Habits of Insects, their Transformations, Development, and Classification, 8th edition, with 15 plates and 670 engravings, royal 8vo, cloth, New York, 1883, £1 5s.

RYE (E. C.) British Beetles: an Introduction to the Study of our Indigenous Coleoptera, 16 coloured steel plates of species, and 11 wood engravings, crown 8vo, cloth, 1866, 8s. 6d.

SPRY (W.) and W. E. SHUCKARD, British Coleoptera Delineated, with 94 plates, figures of all the Genera of British Beetles, 8vo, cloth, 1840, scarce, £1 1s.

STAVELEY (E. F.) British Insects: a Familiar Description of the Form, Structure, Habits, and Transformations of Insects, 16 coloured plates and numerous wood engravings, crown 8vo, cloth, 1871, 10s. 6d.

STAVELEY (E. F.) British Spiders: an Introduction to the Study of the Araneidæ found in Great Britain and Ireland, 16 plates, containing coloured figures of nearly 100 species, crown 8vo, cloth, 1866, 8s. 6d.

WESTWOOD (J. O.) Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects, founded on the Natural Habits and Corresponding Organization of the different Families, coloured plate and 130 wood engravings, 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, 1839-40, £3 15s.

WOOD (W., F.R.S.) Index Entomologicus, or a Complete Illustrated Catalogue, consisting of 1,944 coloured figures of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain, 1st edition, very scarce, large paper, 8vo, half-calf, 1839, £5 5s.

The 1,944 figures are exquisitely coloured, which cannot be said of the subsequent editions of the work.

FISHES.

BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA: a Catalogue of Books on Angling, the Fisheries and Fish-Culture, with Bibliographical Notes, and an Appendix of Citations touching on Angling and Fishing from old English Authors, by Thos. Westwood and Thos. Satchell, 432 pp., 8vo, cloth, 1883, 12s. 6d.

BLOCH (M. E.) Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, avec des Figures dessinées d'après Nature par Bloch. Par René-Richard Castel, with 152 fine coloured plates, 10 vols, in 5, 12mo, half-calf, Paris, an ix., £1 1s.

DAY (F.) The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland: a Natural History of such as are known to Inhabit the Seas and Fresh Waters of the British Isles, their Economic Uses, Modes of Capture, etc., and an introduction upon Fishes generally, 179 plates, 2 vols., imperial 8vo, cloth, 1885 (pub. £5 15s.), £4 18s.

DAY (Francis) FISHES of India, being a Natural History of the Fishes known to Inhabit the Seas and Fresh Waters of India, Burmah, and Ceylon, with Descriptions of the Sub-classes, Orders, Families, Genera, and Species, 198 fine plates and 886 figures, 2 vols., imperial quarto, half morocco, 1876-78 (issued to Subscribers, £12 12s.), £8 17s. 6d.

GOODE (Prof. G. B., United States Commissioner to the Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883) GAME FISHES OF THE UNITED STATES: a series of 20 magnificent paintings of Fishes and Scenery, by S. A. Kilbourne, with text by G. Brown Goode, Curator of the United States National Museum, and of the United States Fishery Commission; 10 parts, size 28 by 22 inches, 1879, £10 10s.

YARRELL (W.) History of BRITISH FISHES. Third Edition, with Figures and Descriptions of the additional Species by Sir John Richardson, C.B., with Memoir, Portrait, and 522 engravings of fishes, 2 vols., 8vo, half calf, 1859 (Pub. £3 3s.), £2 2s.

In fine condition. The former owner has carefully ruled lines under some important paragraphs.

MAMMALIA AND GENERAL ZOOLOGY.

COBBOLD (T. Spencer, M.D., F.R.S.) ENTOZOA: Introduction to the Study of Helminthology, more particularly the Internal Parasites of Man, also supplement, 21 coloured plates by the Author and G. Busk, imperial 8vo, cloth, 1864-69, scarce, £1 7s. 6d.

CLAUS (Dr. C.) Text-book of Zoology, translated and edited by Adam Sedgwick, M.A., and F. G. Heathcote, B.A., with 1,400 engravings, 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, 1884-85, £1 11s. 6d.

GARROD (A. H.) Collected Scientific Papers (on the Anatomy of Mammals and Birds), by W. A. Forbes, portrait and 33 plates, some coloured, 537 pp., royal 8vo, 1881, £2 2s.

On the Kangaroo, Halmaturus luctuosus, and its affinities.—Notes on the Manatee.—Anatomy of the Passerine Birds.—Anatomy of the Musk-Deer.— Anatomy of the Chinese Water-Birds.—On the Brain of the Hippopotamus, and many other Monographs.

JARDINE'S Naturalist's Library, a complete set, with 1,280 coloured plates, portraits of naturalists and vignettes, 40 vols., 12mo, cloth, Edinburgh, 1833-43, £7.

This is a genuine original copy, has the plates most carefully coloured by hand, and, in this respect, is far superior to any of the recent issues, which exhibit great inferiority in colouring. Comprises Mammalia 13 vols, Ornithology 14 vols, Entomology 7 vols, Ichthyology 6 vols.

LOUDON (J. C.) Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, numerous engravings, 9 vols., 8vo, half morocco, gilt, 1829-39, £2 12s. 6d.

STANDARD NATURAL HISTORY, to be completed in six volumes, imperial 8vo, edited by J. S. Kingsley.

Vol. I., LOWER INVERTEBRATES: Protozoa, Poriferata, Cœlenterata, Echinodermata, Vermes, Molluscoidæ, Mollusca, illustrated by 501 wood engravings and 22 full-page plates, imperial 8vo, extra cloth, Boston, 1885, £1 10s.

Vol. II., CRUSTACEA and INSECTS: Crustacea—Cirripedia, Entomostraca, Podophthalmia, Edriophthalmia; Insects—Malacopoda, Arachnida, Myriapoda, Hexapoda (Thysanura, Neuroptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, etc.), illustrated by 662 wood engravings and 20 full-page plates, imperial 8vo, extra cloth, Boston, 1884, £1 10s.

Vol. V., MAMMALS: Mammalia—Introduction; Monotremes and Marsupials, by R. Ramsay Wright; Edentates, by Theodore Gill; Rodentia, by Elliot Coues; Insectivora, by T. Gill; Bats, by T. Gill; Whales, by W, N. Lockington; Manatees, by J. S. Kingsley; Elephants, by G. Macloskie; Hyrax, by Kingsley; Toxodontia, by W. B. Scott; Ungulates, by R. Ramsay Wright; Carnivores, by W. N. Lockington; Primates, by R. Ramsay Wright; illustrated by 244 wood engravings and 42 full-page plates, imperial 8vo, extra cloth, Boston, 1884, £1 10s.

The volumes are not sold separately.

THOMPSON (William) The Natural History of Ireland: BIRDS, 3 vols.; Mammalia, Reptiles, Fishes, and Invertebrata, 1 vol., with portrait; together 4 vols., 8vo, half morocco, gilt, 1849-51-56, scarce, £4 10s.

'An excellent work, full of novelty and interest—might properly be called a Cyclopædia of the Habits of Birds, etc., in Ireland.'—Athenæum.

TRISTRAM (Rev. Canon H. B., D.D., F.R.S.) The Fauna and Flora of Western Palestine, with 19 fine plates (those of Mammalia and Ornithology coloured, and 17 figures of the Reptiles and Fishes), royal 4to, cloth, 1884, £3 3s. WIED-NEUWIED (Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied) BEITRAEGE ZUR NATURGESCHICHTE VON BRASILIEN (MAMMALIA, AVES, REPTILIA, BATRACHIA), 4 vols., 8vo, morocco, Weimar, 1825-33, with 11 plates; also, ABBILDUNGEN ZUR NATURGESCHICHTE BRASILIENS, Weimar, 1822-31, 90 COLOURED plates, folio, half-bound, Presentation Copy to Col. C. H. Smith, with autograph of the author (pub. £11), £4 17s. 6d.

ORNITHOLOGY.

BAIRD (Prof. Spencer F.) JOHN CASSIN, and G. N. LAWRENCE—Report upon the BIRDS of the Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, under the direction of the United States War Department, text, pp. lvi. and 1,005, Atlas of 37 fine coloured plates of Birds, with descriptions, 2 vols., royal quarto, cloth, Washington, U.S., 1858, £2 10s.

BULLER (Walter L.) Manual of the BIRDS of New Zealand, with 37 fine plates and engravings, royal 8vo, cloth, New Zealand, 1882, 12s. 6d.

COUES (Dr. Elliott, M.A., M.D., Ph.D.) KEY to NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS: concise account of every Species of Living and Fossil Bird, Second Edition, revised and re-written, with an Outline of the Structure and Classification of Birds. Numerous fine engravings, demy 8vo, cloth, 1884, £1 15s.

GAME BIRDS AND WATER-FOWL OF THE UNITED STATES, 20 fine coloured plates, equal to drawings, each measuring 22 by 28 inches, mounted on card-boards. List of plates: The American Snipe, the Green-winged Teal, the Woodcock, the Mallard Duck, the American Quail, the Black Duck, the Ruffed Grouse, the Blue-Bill Duck, the Prairie Chicken, the Red-head Duck, the Canada Grouse, the Wood Duck, the Californian Valley Quail, the Buffle-headed Duck, the Upland Plover, the Golden-eye Duck or Whistler, the Californian Mountain Quail, the Widgeon, the Canvas-back Duck, the Brant; one volume, atlas folio, half-morocco, gilt edges, 1878 (pub. £8), £4 17s. 6d.

HEWITSON (W. C.) Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, with descriptions of their nests and nidifications, 3rd edition, 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, 1856 (pub. £4 14s. 6d.), £4 4s.

MITCHELL (F. S.) The Birds of Lancashire, 242 pp., with map of the County, 2 coloured plates, 9 plain, and 3 vignettes by J. G. Keulemans, etc., crown 8vo, cloth, 1885, 7s. 6d.

The author is member of the British Ornithologist's Union. A work of great labour and research. Favourably reviewed in Nature, July, 1885.

MORRIS (F. O.) History of British Birds, with 350 coloured plates, 8 vols., crown 8vo, cloth, 1862, £2 2s.

MORRIS (F. O.) Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, new edition, enlarged, 233 coloured plates, 3 vols., super-royal 8vo, cloth, 1871 (pub. £3 3s.), £2.

RAMON DE LA SAGRA (D.) Historia Fisica Politica y Naturel de la Isla de Cuba, AVES por Mr. Alcides D'Orbigny, with 33 fine coloured plates of Birds and their Eggs, folio, half-bound, with the text in French, 8vo, Paris, 1839, £3 7s. 6d.

SAMUELS (Edward A.) Our Northern and Eastern Birds, containing Descriptions of the Birds of the Northern and Eastern States and British Provinces, together with a History of their Habits, times of Arrival and Departure, their Distribution, Food, Song, Time of Breeding, and a careful and accurate Description of their Nests and Eggs, with a supplement from Holder's 'American Fauna,' with 30 plain and 5 coloured plates, and numerous engravings, royal 8vo, cloth, New York, 1883, £1 5s.

SCLATER (P. L., F.R.S.) A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-birds, or Families Galbulidæ and Bucconidæ, 55 very fine coloured plates, with letterpress, the plates drawn by J. G. Keulemans and coloured by hand, royal 4to, in 1 vol., new half morocco, top edges gilt, uncut, 1883, £6.

STEARNS (W. A.) New England Bird Life, being a Manual of New England Ornithology, revised and edited from the manuscripts of W. A. Stearns by Elliot Coues, with numerous engravings, 2 vols. (Vol. I., Oscines; Vol. II., Non-oscine Passeres, Birds of Prey, Game and Water Birds), 8vo, cloth, Boston, 1881-83, £1 5s.

THOMPSON (Wm.) The BIRDS of IRELAND, Vol. I., Raptores and Insessores; Vol. II., Rasores and Grallatores; Vol. III., Natatores; 3 vols., 8vo, cloth, 1849-51, £2 10s.

'An excellent work, full of novelty and interest; a Cyclopædia of the Habits of Birds of Ireland.'—Athenæum.

YARRELL (W.) History of British Birds, 4th Edition, revised by Prof. Newton and H. Saunders, 564 engravings, 4 vols., 8vo, cloth, 1871-74 (pub. £4), £3 7s.

PHYSICAL SCIENCE.

Astronomy, Geology, etc.

BAILY (Francis) Astronomical Tables and Formulæ, together with a variety of Problems explanatory of their use and application, to which are prefixed the Elements of the Solar System, 8vo, boards, 1827, 17s. 6d.

CHAMBERS (G. F.) Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy, 3rd edition, with 34 plates, 8vo, cloth, 1877, £1 4s.

DE MORGAN (Augustus, F.R.A.S.) Budget of Paradoxes (reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenæum), large 8vo, cloth, scarce, 1872, £2 2s.

GILBERT'S DE MAGNETE.—Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrencis, Medici Londinensis, De Magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia nova, plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata. Londini excudebat Petrus Short, Anno MDC, pp. 14 and 240, numerous engravings of Gilbert's Electrical Experiments, small folio, old calf, very scarce, 1600, £5 5s.

GOULD (B. A.) Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino en Cordoba. Uranometria Argentina; Brightness and Position of every Fixed Star down to the Seventh Magnitude within 100 degrees of the South Pole, text, 4to, 388 pp., and atlas, folio, containing 14 Star Charts (forming Vol. I. of the Resultados), in English and Spanish, Buenos Aires, 1879 £4 4s.

GOULD (B. A.) Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino en Cordoba. Vols. VII., VIII., Zone Catalogue, Mean Positions of the Stars observed in the Zones at the Argentine National Observatory, with Introduction and Precession Tables, 2 vols., 4to, 879 pp., Buenos Aires, 1884, £2 10s.

HERSCHEL (Sir J. F. W.) Results of ASTRONOMICAL Observations made during the years 1834-38 at the Cape of Good Hope, being the completion of a telescopic survey of the whole surface of the visible heavens, with frontispiece and 8 plates, royal 4to, cloth, scarce, 1847, £2 2s.

LA TOUCHE (J. D.) Geology of Shropshire, with 823 engravings, 4to, cloth, 1884, 15s.

NASMYTH (James, C.E.) and James CARPENTER, F.R.A.S., The Moon: considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, with 24 photographic plates of Lunar Objects, Phenomena, and Scenery, numerous woodcuts, 4to, cloth, 1874, very scarce, £4 4s.

PETERS (Dr. C. H. F.) Celestial Charts for the Equinox, 1860, made at the Litchfield Observatory, Hamilton College, New York (last comparison with the sky in 1882), 1st series, 20 maps, folio (22 inches by 16 inches), £3 3s.

PRICE (Bartholomew, F.R.S.) Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus: Vol. I., Differential Calculus; Vol. II., Integral Calculus, Calculus of Variation, and Differential Equations; Vol. III., Statics and Dynamics of Material Particles, with 10 plates, 3 vols., 8vo, cloth, last edition, Oxford, 1857, 1865, and 1868, £1 17s. 6d.

SCHMIDT (Dr. J. F. Julius) Charte der Gebirge des Mondes nach einigen beobachtungen in den Jahren 1840-74, 25 sections of the Moon, each royal folio, in portfolio, with text, over 300 pp., 4to, boards, 1878, £2 12s.

SMYTH (Captain William Henry) A CYCLE OF CELESTIAL OBJECTS, Vol. I., Prolegomena, 516 pp., with about 50 engravings; Vol. II., the Bedford Catalogue, 560 pp., with about 60 engravings of nebulæ, etc., 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, uncut, scarce, 1844, £3 3s.

This is the original and best edition. The reprint (1881) contains the Bedford Catalogue; that is one volume only of the Cycle.

SOWERBY (J.) British Mineralogy, 550 coloured plates, with descriptions of the Minerals of Great Britain, 5 vols., royal 8vo, half-calf, 1804-17, £6.

SUSSEX.—The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex, by the late FREDERICK DIXON, Esq., F.G.S.; new edition, revised and augmented by T. RUPERT JONES, F.R.S., F.G.S., aided by PROFESSOR OWEN, C.B., Sir P. de M. Grey-Egerton, Bart., M.P., Prof. T. Bell, F.R.S., W. Carruthers, F.R.S., T. Davidson, F.R.S., R. Etheridge, F.R.S., J. Evans, F.R.S., Prof. J. Morris, F.G.S., E. T. Newton, F.G.S., W. J. Sollas, F.G.S., Henry Woodward, F.R.S., T. Wright, F.R.S., and others, pp. 24 and 462, with Geological Map and Section of Borings, also 64 sheets of fine plates of Fossils, including a selection from those published in 'Mantell's Fossils of the South Downs,' new edition, royal 4to, cloth, Brighton, 1878, £2 15s.

WADSWORTH (M. E.) Lithological Studies—A Description and Classification of the Rocks of the Cordilleras, with 8 plates, containing 48 coloured sections, 4to, Cambridge, U.S., 1884, £1 10s.

The plates are beautiful microscopical enlargements of thin sections of the rocks.

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