Notes and Queries, Number 240, June 3, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 240, June 3, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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THE EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS, displayed in a Series of Engravings, by DICKES,
copied and coloured from Nature, with Descriptions and Anecdotes of British
Birds. Small 8vo., beautifully bound, price 6s. 6d. Also kept in elegant
Papier Maché covers.
This handsome volume gives the exact representations of the size, shape,
and colour of the eggs of our British birds; and contains a clear and
correct description of eggs; together with numerous anecdotes and facts
concerning British birds.
London: BINNS & GOODWIN, 44. Fleet Street.
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Just published, with ten coloured Engravings, price 5s.,
NOTES ON AQUATIC MICROSCOPIC SUBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY, selected from the
"Microscopic Cabinet." By ANDREW PRITCHARD, M.R.I.
Also, in 8vo., pp. 720, plates 24, price 21s., or coloured, 36s.,
A HISTORY OF INFUSORIAL ANIMALCULES, Living and Fossil, containing
Descriptions of every species, British and Foreign, the methods of
procuring and viewing them, &c., illustrated by numerous Engravings. By
ANDREW PRITCHARD, M.R.I.
"There is no work extant in which so much valuable information
concerning Infusoria (Animalcules) can be found, and every Microscopist
should add it to his library."--_Silliman's Journal._
London: WHITTAKER & CO., Ave Maria Lane.
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