8.
PHYCOLOGIA BRITANNICA;
on,
HISTORY OF BRITISH SEA-WEEDS;
Containing coloured figures, generic and specific characters, synonymes,- and descriptions, of all the species
of Algae inhabiting the shores of the British Islands.
By WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY, M.D., M.R.I.A.,
Keeper of the Herbarium of the University of Dublin, and Professor of Botany to the Dublin Society.
" Before the appearance of any portion of this work there could be but one opinion of Dr. Harvey's thorough fitness for the letter-press
department; happy arc we to find that his pencil is not less felicitous than his pen. The drawings, admirably true to nature, arc executed
in a most masterly and tasteful style; the publishers have done great justice to the letter-press part, and their coloured plates arc truly
exquisite. The figures of the natural size are exceedingly like, and the magnified portions of the frond, and of the stem, will be of the greatest
possible service."—Edinburgh Witness.
"The drawings arc beautifully executed by the author himself, upon stone, the dissections carefully prepared, and the whole account
of the species drawn up in such a nay as cannot fail to be instructive; the price, too, half a croicn for each fasciculus of six plates, is
extremely reasonable. Such a work is absoluh !v necessary, the greater part of our common Alga? having never been figured in a manner
agreeable to the present state of the science."—Hardeners' Chronicle.
" Wc hail with extreme pleasure an illustrated ' History of British Sea-Weeds;' and above all, on account of the accuracy which it
ensures, one in which every species will be drawn, lithographed, and described by the same hand; the importance of which combination
in one individual is well known to naturalists of any experience, the species being generally described by one party, drawn by a second, and
lithographed by a third. So favourably is Dr. Harvey known to the botanical world as an Algologist, that to speak of his excellent treatment
of the subject in all its bearings seems superfluous. The ' History of British Sca-Wccds' we can most faithfully recommend for its
scientific, its pictorial, and its popular value ; the professed botanist will find it a work of the highest character, whilst those who desire merely
to know the names and history of the lovely plants which they gather on the sea-shore, will find in it, when complete, the faithful portraiture
of every one of them."—Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
*„* Published monthly, in Parts, price 2s. 6d., coloured; large paper, 5s. To be completed in sixty Parts, of
three hundred and sixty plates. Part XXXII. just published.
9.
NEREIS AUSTRALIS;
OK,
Illustrations of the Algae of the Southern Ocean, being Figures, Descriptions, and Remarks upon new or
imperfectly known Sea-Weeds, collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra-tropical
Australian Colonics, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic Regions, and deposited in the Herbarium
of the Dublin University.
By WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY, M.D., M.R.I.A.,
Keeper of the Herbarium, and Professor of Botany to the Dublin Society.
" Of this most important contribution to our knowledge of exotic Algic, wc know not if we can pay it a higher compliment than by
saying it is worthy of the author. It should be observed that the work is not a selection of certain species, but an arranged system of all
that is known of Australian Algic, accompanied by figures of the new and rare ones, especially of those most remarkable for beauty of
form and colour."—London Journal of Botany.
*i* To be completed in Four Parts, imp. 8vo, price 11. Is. Part I. recently published.
10.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH MYCOLOGY,
Containing figures and popular descriptions of the Funguses of interest and novelty indigenous to Britain.
By Mrs. T. J. IIUSSEY.
" It is quite astonishing that so little use should be made of the profusion of wholesome food which is scattered through our
woods and meadows in the autumn, under the form of various species of Fungi. This arises doubtless in great measure from a want of
practical knowledge of the distinctions between good and wholesome species, and those which are more or less deleterious ; to supply which
we have hitherto had no English work of any magnitude, except those of a more general character, like Bolton's or Sowerby's Fungi,
though so many have been published on the continent. Two distinct publications have lately appeared on the same subject; the one by
Dr. Badliam, who has received much friendly aid from Mrs. Husscy's admirable pencil; and the other by Mrs. Hnssey herself, which we
are at present noticing.
" This talented lady and her sister were in the first instance induced to draw some of the more striking Fungi, merely as picturesque
objects. Their collection of drawings at length became important from their number and accuracy, and a long continued study of the
nutritive properties of Fungi has induced the former to lay the results of her investigations before the public, under the form of monthly
illustrations of the more useful and interesting species. The figures are so faithful that there can be no difficulty in at once determining
with certainty the objects they are intended to represent; and the observations, especially those of the culinary department, will be found
of much interest to the general reader, and wc doubt not that our tables will in consequence receive many a welcome addition ; while
from the accuracy of the figures, there will be no danger, with ordinary attention, of making any serious blunder."—Gardeners' Chronicle.
%* In monthly Parts, each containing three plates. Price 5s. coloured. Part XVII. just published.
11.
THE LONDON JOURNAL OF BOTANY,
Being a New Series of the Journal of Botany,
Edited by SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c.
The publication of this old-established Journal will be continued monthly. Each number contains original
Papers by eminent Botanists, general information, News of Botanical Travellers, Notices of Books, 5;c.
%* In monthly Parts. Price 2s. 6a\ Part LXXX. just published.
12.
CONCHOLOGIA ICONICA;
OB,
Figures and Descriptions of the Shells of Molluscous Animals, with critical remarks on their synonymes,
affinities, and circumstances of habitation.
By LOVELL REEVE, F.L.S.
Illustrated chiefly from the Cumhigian Collection.
Owing to the zeal with which the interests of the COXCUOLOGIA ICOXICA have been promoted by Mr. Cuming,
the work has been maiidy illustrated from his instructive collection, the result of " more than thirty of the
best years of his life in arduous and hazardous personal exertions, dredging, diving, wading, and wandering,