Part 47 (1/2)
”Judiciously executed, with excellent figures of the commoner species, for the use of young beginners.”--_Annual Address of the President of the Entomological Society._
”Miss Catlow's 'Popular British Entomology' contains an introductory chapter or two on cla.s.sification, which are followed by brief generic and specific descriptions in English of above 200 of the commoner British species, together with accurate figures of about 70 of those described; and will be quite a treasure to anyone just commencing the study of this fascinating science.”--_Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review._
POPULAR HISTORY OF MAMMALIA. By ADAM WHITE, F.L.S., a.s.sistant in the Zoological Department of the British Museum. With sixteen coloured Plates of Quadrupeds, &c. by B. WATERHOUSE HAWKINS, F.L.S. Royal 16mo. 10_s._ 6_d._
”The present increase of our stores of anecdotal matter respecting every kind of animal has been used with much tact by Mr. White, who has a terse chatty way of putting down his reflections, mingled with that easy familiarity which every one accustomed daily to zoological pursuits is sure to attain. The book is profusely ill.u.s.trated.”--_Atlas._
THE BRITISH PALaeOZOIC FOSSILS, added by Professor Sedgwick to the Woodwardian Museum. By Professor M'COY. In royal 4to, with numerous Plates.
Part I., containing the Radiata and Articulata, is now ready. 16_s._
Part II., containing the Lower Palaeozoic Mollusca, is in the press.
THOUGHTS ON A PEBBLE; or, a First Lesson in Geology. By Dr.
MANTELL, F.R.S. _Eighth Edition_, considerably enlarged. With four coloured plates, twenty-seven woodcuts, and a Portrait of the Author. Square 12mo. 5_s._
”I have just procured a little work for my young pupils, a most delightful introduction, ent.i.tled 'Thoughts on a Pebble, or a First Lesson in Geology,' by Dr. Mantell, and I must request you to read it; for although it does not consist of more than thirty pages [increased in the present edition to upwards of a hundred] it will expand to your view a new world that will astonish and delight you.”--_Philosophy in Sport._
MISCELLANEOUS.
ELEMENTARY PHYSICS; an Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy. By ROBERT HUNT, Professor of Mechanical Science at the Government School of Mines, Author of 'Poetry of Science,'
'Researches on Light,' and 'Handbook to the Great Exhibition.'
Ill.u.s.trated with a coloured frontispiece, and 217 vignettes and wood engravings. Fcap. 8vo, cloth. 10_s._ 6_d._
CONTENTS.
Chapter I. General Properties of Ponderable Matter.
” II. General Laws of Motion.
” III. Laws of Slightly Elastic Fluids.
” IV. Laws of Elastic Fluids.
Chapter V. Sonorous Movement of Bodies.
” VI. Primary Phenomena of Electricity.
” VII. Heat, or Caloric.
” VIII. Light and Actinism.
”As a really elementary treatise on the whole work of Physical Science, we know none to compare with it, and it is, therefore, admirably adapted for the wants of the student; whilst, on the other hand, it may be read and looked through with profit and interest by those who have long mastered the general truths it embodies, and for the many novel ill.u.s.trations and applications of these which it contains.”--_British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review._
POPULAR MINERALOGY; a Familiar account of Minerals and their Uses. By HENRY SOWERBY. Royal 16mo, with plates of figures.