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^™—EDWARD STANFORD'S NEW BOOKS , Life and Her Children . Glimpses of Animal Life , from the Amoeba to the Insects . By Arabella B . Buckley , Authoress of ' The Fairy Land of Science / * A Short History of Natural Science / ' Botanical Tables for the Use of Junior Students . ' Crown 8 vo ., with upwards of 100 Illustrations , cloth gilt , gilt edges , 6 * . Extract feom Preface . — ' The main object is to acquaint young people with the structure and habits of the lower forms of life , and to do this in a more , systematic way than is usual in ordinary works on Natural History , and more simply than in text books on Zoology . For this reason I have adopted the title , " Life and Her Children , " to express the family bond uniting all living things , as we use the term " Nature and Her Works " to embrace all organic and inorganic phenomena ; and I have been more careful to sketch in bold outline the leading features of each division than to dwell upon the minor differences by which it is separated into groups . I have made use of British examples in illustration , ^ wherever it was possible , and small specimens of most of the marine animals figured may be found upon our coasts at low tide / CONTENT S * CHAP . CHAP . 1 . Life and Her'Children . 8 . The Mailed Warriors of the Sea , with Ringed 2 . Life ' s Simplest Children : how they Live , and Bodies and Jointed Feet . Move , and Build . 9 . The Snare-Weavers and their Hunting 3 . How Sponges Live . Relations . 4 . The Lasso-Throwers of the Ponds and Oceans . 10 . Insect Suckers and Biters , which Change 5 . How Starfish Walk , and Sea-Urchins Grow . their Coats , but not their Bodies . 6 . The Mantle-covered Animals , and how they 11 . Insect G-nawers and Sippers which Remodel Live with Heads and without them . their Bodies within their Coats . 7 . The Outcasts of Animal Life , and the Elastic- 12 . Intelligent Insects with helpless Children , as ringed Animals by Sea and by Land . Illustrated by the Ants . [ Ready . Pre-Historic Europe : a , Geological Sketch . By James Geikie , LL . D ., F . R . S ., & c , of Her Majesty ' s Geological Survey of Scotland , Author of' The Great Ice Age . ' Medium 8 vo ., with Maps and Illustrations . ' The object of these pages is to give an outline of what appears to have been the most considerable physical changes experienced in our continent since the beginning of the Pleistocene or Quarternary Period . Several general works , by some of our most accomplished geologists and archaeologists , have already dealt with the -subject in part , but none quite cover the ground I have endeavoured to occupy . While some of my predecessors have examined the evidence principally from the point of view of the archaeologist , and others from that of the palaeontologist , my aim has been to describe in a more systematic manner than has hitherto been attempted that succession of changes , climatic and geographical , which ,, taken together , constitute the Historical Geology of Pleistocene , Post-glacial , and recent times . '—Extract from Preface . [ Next week . The Coalfields Of Great Britain : their History , Structure , and Resources ; with Notices of the Coalfields of other Parts of the World . By Edward Hull , M . A ., F . E . S ., Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland , Author of The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland . ' Fourth Edition , demy 8 vo ., with Map and Illustrations . 'This edition has been largely rewritten . It contains an entirely new chapter oq Carboniferous Plants , kindly drawn up by Professor Williamson , F . R . S ., of Manchester . The classification of the Carboniferous Series of Beds has been modified in accordance with the views enunciated in my paper Ion this subject read before the Geological Society of London in 1877 . The account of the various coalfields has been modified in accordance with more recent investigations as far as my information extends , and the statistical portions have been brought down to the date of 1878/—Extract from Prhfacb . [ Nearly ready . Household ledge for Girls S and cience Young Women : Re . Edited adings by Rev . in J . P Necessary . Faunthorpb , M . A . Know , Principal of - Whitelands College . Dedicated by permission to His Grace the Duke of Westminster , K . G . Post 8 vo . [ Nearly ready % London : EDWARD STANFORD , 55 Charing Cross , S . W . ( 599 )

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