Volume 5

A history of British forest-trees : indigenous and introduced / By Prideaux John Selby. Illustrated by nearly 200 engravings.

  • Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867.
Date:
1842
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A history of British forest-trees : indigenous and introduced / By Prideaux John Selby. Illustrated by nearly 200 engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Just published, in one vol. 8vo, with above 120 Illustrations, price 15s, or royal 8vo, 30s. A HISTORY OF BRITISH STAR-FISHES, SEA URCHINS, and the other Animals of the Class ECHINODERMATA: contain¬ ing an account of every species met with on the British Coasts. BY EDWARD FORBES, M.W.S., For. Sec. B.S., etc. This volume is uniform with the British Quadrupeds and British Reptiles by Professor Bell, and the British Birds and British Fishes by Mr. Yarrell. “ The style of the author is very pleasing, and he has contrived to render the dry de¬ tails of scientific distinctions and habitats interesting even to the general reader. We welcome the work as a real acquisition to the Zoologist.‘‘’—-Atlbenceum, April 17th. In 8vo. with nearly 100 Illustrations, price 12s. A FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF INSECTS, being a new and greatly improved edition of the Grammar of Entomology, BY EDWARD NEWMAN, F.L.S. Z.S. etc. “ The arrangement of the Introduction is fourfold; the first part containing an account of the more striking species of insects, in their habits, architecture, &c.: the second section is devoted to a practical exposition of the outfit of an entomologist, with instructions for the best mode of using his instruments, and killing and preserving the spoil they may enable him to take ; the third part embraces a very clever and masterly account of the physiology of insects; the fourth treats of the dry but necessary topic of their classification. The work throughout is clearly written, in many parts with animation and spirit; the result of an active mind distinctly perceiving what it intends to convey.”—Spectator, May 29th. JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, PATERNOSTER ROW.