Sowerby's English Botany: Containing a Description and Life-Size Drawing of every British knowledge by T. BOSWELL SYME, F.L.S., &c. With Popular The Distinctive Characteristics of this edition are, 1. A life-size drawing of every British plant, arranged according to the Natural System of De Candolle. 2. Where necessary, the plates are accompanied by illustrations of the structure of the various organs of the plant, especially of those structures discovered within the last few years by the use of the microscope. 3. All the illustrations are full-coloured, instead of half-coloured, and the utmost care is taken to adhere as closely as possible to nature. "Under the editorship of T. Boswell Syme, F.L.S., assisted by Mrs. Lankester, whose work on 'Wildflowers worth Notice' is so well appreciated by the public, we have the best guarantee that Sowerby's English Botany,' when finished, will be exhaustive of the subject, and worthy of the branch of science it illustrates. In turning over the charmingly executed hand-coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step. Our fields, woods, and hillsides, are paved with riches we all too much neglect. We cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in the splendid bouquet of flowers presented in these pages, and it will be sufficient to state that the work is pledged to contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these isles."-The Times, Nov. 3, 1865. "Will be the most complete Flora of Great Britain ever brought out. This great work will find a place wherever botanical science is cultivated, and the study of our native plants, with all their fascinating associations, held dear."-Athenæum. "Nothing can exceed the beauty and accuracy of the coloured figures. They are drawn life-size-an advantage which every young amateur will recognize who has vainly puzzled over drawings in which a celandine is as big as a poppy-they are enriched with delicate delineations of print, petal, anther, and any organ which happens to be remarkable in its form-and not a few plates are altogether new. A clear, bold, distinctive type enables the reader to take in at a glance the arrangement and divisions of every page. And Mrs. Lankester has added to the technical description by the editor, an extremely interesting popular sketch, which follows in smaller type. The English, French and German popular names are given, and, wherever that delicate and difficult step is at all practicable, their derivation also. Medical properties, superstitions, and fancies, and poetic tributes and illusions follow. In short, there is nothing more left to be desired."-Guardian. "Should the succeeding parts be as good, the work, when complete, will be without a rival in excellence."-Observer. "Without question, this is the standard work on Botany, and indispensable to every botanist. The plates are most accurate and beautiful, and the entire work cannot be too strongly recommended to all who are interested in Botany.”—Illustrated London News. LONDON: ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY, Demy 8vo. price 10s. 6d. Hundreds of Woodcuts, and 6 pages of Figures beautifully engraved on Steel. Schleiden's Principles of Scientific Botany; or, Botany as an Inductive Science. Translated by Dr. LANKESter. Every Botanical Library should possess this Work, as it contains the principles upon which all structural botany is based. Crown 8vo. cloth, fully Illustrated, price 6s. Ferns, British and Foreign. 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Handsomely bound, price One Guinea. A Large Edition, without descriptive letter-press, One Guinea. The Fern Collector's Album. A Descriptive Folio for the reception of Natural Specimens; containing on the right-hand page a description of each fern printed in colours, the opposite page being left blank, for the collector to affix the dried specimen; forming, when filled, an elegant and complete collection of this interesting family of plants. Size of the Small Edition, 113 by 8 in.; Large Edition, 17 by 11 in. Fully illustrated, price 4s. coloured by hand; 2s. 6d. plain. The British Ferns (A plain and Easy Account of). Together with their Classification, Arrangement of Genera, Structure, and Functions, Directions for Out-door and In-door Cultivation, &c. By MRS. LANKESTER. "Not only plain and easy, but elegantly illustrated."-Athenæum. "Mrs. Lankester has given us a handy pocket volume, with a great deal of information about the uses, supposed and real, of the Ferns, and hints for their cultivation."-Guardian. The British Fungi (A plain and Easy Account of). With especial reference to the Esculent and other Economic Species. By M. C. COOKE. With Coloured Plates of 40 Species. "The author is a thorough mycophagist, well acquainted with the peculiar features by which the most remarkable of the edible kinds of Fungi may be known.”— Gardener's Chronicle. "A very readable volume upon the lowest and least generally understood race of plants. For popular purposes the book could not have been better done."-Athe næum. Royal 8vo. price 2s. 6d. Index Fungorum Britannicorum. A complete List of Fungi found in the British Islands to the Present Date. Arranged so as to be applicable either as a checklist or for Herbarium Labels. By M. C. COOKE. Also the same Work printed on only one side. Part I. HYMENOMYCETES, 18. Part II. 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By Mrs. LANKESTER. Illustrated by J. E. SOWERBY. "We could while away a long summer day talking of the pleasant things suggested by this little book. Although all intelligent persons cannot become botanists, not to know the wild flowers of our country is to be ignorant both of our country and ourselves. And this little book will, as a pocket companion during holiday ramblesthe descriptions and plates being both good-destroy this ignorance in reference to at least a hundred plants. After mastering it, the student will be not a little astounded at his own learning, when he surveys it in the systematic chapter of contents."— Athenæum. Third Edition, much enlarged, with full description of the various parts of the Instrument, price 2s. 6d. plain; 48. coloured. Half-hours with the Microscope. By EDWIN LANKESTER, M.D. CONTENTS. Half-an-hour on Structure. Illustrated by 250 Drawings Half-an-hour at the Pond-side. Appendix.-The Preparation and Mounting of Objects. "The beautiful little volume before us cannot be otherwise than welcome. It is, in fact, a very complete manual for the amateur microscopist. The HalfHours' are filled with clear and agreeable descriptions, whilst eight plates, executed with the most beautiful minuteness and sharpness, exhibit no less than 250 objects with the utmost attainable distinctness."-Critic. Fcap. cloth, price 2s. 6d. The Preparation and Mounting of Microscopic Objects. By THOMAS Davies. This Manual comprises all the most approved methods of mounting, together with the result of the Author's experience and that of many of his friends in every department of Microscopic Manipulation; and as it is intended to assist the beginner as well as the advanced student, the very rudiments of the art have not been omitted. CHAP. I.-Apparatus. II.-To Prepare and Mount Objects Dry. III.-Mounting in Canada Balsam. IV.-Preservative Liquids. V.-Sections, and How to Cut them, with Remarks on Dissection. VI.-Injection. VII.-Miscellaneous. "Nothing is more difficult to those who handle a microscope for the first time than to get their objects in a fit state for exhibition and preparation. They will therefore feel greatly indebted to Mr. Davies for a little book on The Preparation and Mounting of Microscopic Objects.' It is clear, full, and practical; and if it is a little alarming at first sight by the quantity of apparatus applied in it, it soon reveals to the careful student the valuable fact that a great deal may be done with very simple appliances. We recommend it to young microscopists as a book which supplies a felt deficiency."-Guardian. |