Chapter XVI: Appendix: To Chapter III (3)

Dinka, size of African ivory at, 8 _n._, 12

DIODORUS SICULUS, on the sagacity of the Indian elephant, 150

Dogs, elephants impatient of, 14

—— Major Skinner’s dog, kept off the elephants by its bark, 15

—— superior in sagacity to the elephant, 69

DONNE, His error as to the joints of the elephant, 38

Dublin, elephant burnt to death, 26 _n._

“Duipa,” an Indian name of the elephant, its signification, 63 _n._

Dust, habit of throwing it over themselves, 133

Dutch possessions in India, vii. _See_ Temminck

—— elephant hunts conducted by, 95

EAR, formation of, 167

—— love of music, 168 _n._

—— Sir EVERARD HOME, on hearing in the elephant, 167

Ebony, logs piled by elephants, 164

“Eleph,” Hebrew, conjectured to be the root of elepha, 4 _n._

“_Elephant_,” derivation of the word, 4 _n._

—— conjectures of Pictet, Bochart, Pott, and Benary, 4 _n._

—— great numbers in Ceylon, 5

—— will ere long be extinct in India, 6 _n._

—— alleged enmity to man, and other animals, 10

—— signs of perfection in. See _Hastisilpe_, 21

—— natural colour of the skin, 22

—— loves shade, 25

—— scene, by night while bathing, 52

—— stomach of the elephant double, 56

—— the Ceylon elephant supposed to exceed that of India in sagacity,
152

Elephant, the first brought to Greece by Antipater, 150

Elephant shooting. _See_ Shooting ἐλέφας signified not the elephant,
but its _ivory_, 4 _n._

—— Benary’s derivation of the word, 66 _n._

Elephas Sumatranus. _See_ Sumatra, viii.

—— supposed to differ from the elephant of India, vii.

—— this theory doubted by Dr. Falconer, ix.

Elk, error of Cæsar in saying that the “alce” has no joints, 33

_Englishman, Voyage of a certain_, story of an elephant killing a
horse, 13 _n._

EVELYN, JOHN, refutes the fallacy that the elephant has no joints, 33

Eye of the elephant small, 26, ib. _n._

—— its accuracy when engaged in working, 26

FAIRHOLME on the elephant, 159 _n._

FALCONER, Dr., doubts the alleged difference between the elephants
of Sumatra and India, ix.

—— on the height of elephants, 31 _n._

Fanning themselves, habit of, 84

—— extreme grace of the movement, 136

—— in the corral, 135

Feet, habit of swinging, 84

—— not, as supposed, a substitute for exercise, 85

Females in a herd, numerous, 47

Fences, elephant’s dread of, 65

_Fils-ben_, Danish for ivory, 4 _n._

Flesh of the elephant coarse, 88

FLEURENS, on the duration of life in the elephant, 177

Flies, their marvellous faculty of discerning carrion, 139 _n._

—— account of their hurrying to death-beds, 139 _n._

Food of the elephant when wild, 63

—— when tamed and trained, 175

Foot, a frequent seat of disease, 170

—— its extreme sensitiveness, 133

—— of the elephant makes good soup, 89

—— twice its circumference equal to the height of the animal, 98 _n._

FORBES, anecdote from his _Oriental Memoirs_, 107 _n._

Forehead of the elephant, wound in, fatal, 80

Fossil elephant, 159 _n._

Fretz, Gerard, frightful wound, 90

GADJAH. _See_ Sumatran elephant, viii.

Gallwey, Capt. P. Payne, number of elephants shot by him, 77 _n._

Geological formation of Ceylon, vii.

“_Goondah._” _See_ Rogue, 48

Gooneratné Modliar, his derivation for the word elephant, 5 _n._

GUILLIM, heraldry of the elephant, 38 _n._

HAIRY elephants, 159 _n._

Hardy, Colonel, story of, 69

Haroun, Alraschid, sends an elephant to Charlemagne, 35

HARRISON, Dr., on the anatomy of the elephant, 26 _n._, 57 _n._, 60, 61

—— on the structure of the head, 79

—— on the ear of the elephant, 167

_Hastisilpe_, a Singhalese work on elephants, 17 _n._, 21

Hawkus. _See_ Hendoo, 155

Head, wound in, fatal, 79

—— section of, 80

—— this fact noticed by Pliny, 79 _n._

Hearing. _See_ Ear

Heber, Bishop, describes a diminutive species of elephant, 159 _n._

Hedges, dreaded by elephants, 67

Height, exaggerated estimates of, in elephants, 30

Hendoo, used by the mahout, 155

Herd, the term described as applied to the elephant, 45

—— similarity of features in, 45

—— submissive to one leader, 50

—— their conventional association and attachment, 45

HERODOTUS, account of the antipathy of the elephant to the camel, 13

—— veneration for white horses and white oxen, 23

Himalayas, elephant paths on, 43

Hippopotamus, solitary individuals of, 49

HODGSON, Mr. B. H., his explorations in Nepal, xi.

Hog, double stomach of, 58

HOLLAND, DR., on the physiology of tusks, 17 _n._

HOME, Sir EVERARD, on the double stomach of the elephant, 58

—— on the ear of the elephant, 166, 167

HOME, RANDAL, his heraldry of the elephant, 38

HOOKER, Dr., elephants in the Himalayas, 43

_Hora._ _See_ Rogue, 47, 72

HORACE, mentions a white elephant at Rome, 24

Horse, alleged antipathy of the elephant to, 12

—— instances in disproof of this, 13

—— killed by a trained elephant, 13

—— anecdote of the meeting of a horse and an elephant, 19

—— structure of the shoulder joint, 41

IDLENESS, love of, in tame elephants, 165

Indian elephant supposed to differ from that of Sumatra, viii.

—— comparative anatomy of, vii.

—— varieties of the same species in, x.

—— elephant is dying out in India, 6 _n._

Indicopleustes (_see_ Cosmas), export of elephants, 5

Ivory, annual importations of, 6 _n._

—— proportion from Ceylon, 6 _n._

—— of Ceylon preferred in China, 6 _n._

—— African preferred in Europe, 6 _n._

—— weight of, in various countries, 8 _n._

—— immense African tusks at Goa, 8 _n._

—— how formed. _See_ Dentine, 173

JAFFNA, instinct shown by elephants at, 64

JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM, fallacy as to elephants shedding tusks, 7 _n._

Java, no elephants in the island, viii.

Joints, ancient error as to the elephant having none, 32

—— explanation of its origin, 38, 39

KANDY, the King of, held the killing of an elephant a criminal offence,
5

—— his hunts for capturing elephants, 96

Keddah. _See_ Corral, 104

Kimbul-oya. _See_ Alligator River, 106

Knox, his account of executions by trained elephants, 17

—— on the attachment of the herd to the young, 47

—— his accounts of elephant hunts in Kandy 77 _n._

Kombook tree; lime extracted from the bark, 110

Korahl. _See_ Corral.

Korles, the Seven, elephant hunts in, 4

Kornegalle, beauty of the place, 107

—— its temple the resort of Buddhists, 108

—— sacred footstep on the rock, 108

Kraal. _See_ Corral

—— derivation of the word, 105

Kurahl. _See_ Corral

Kurminia-galla, 107 _n._

Kurunoi-galla. _See_ Kornegalle

LABOUR of tame elephants too costly, 164, 174.
_See_ Tame Elephants

Lampongs. _See_ Sumatra, viii.

Leap, the elephant unable to, 40

—— anecdote, doubtful, of an elephant leaping, 41

LE BRUN, his account of the elephants in Ceylon, 5 _n._

Leyden, elephants in Museum, x.

Life, duration of in the elephant, 177, 178

Lightning, dreaded by elephants, 68

Lindsay, Mr., adventure with elephants, 75

LIVINGSTONE, Dr., on the solitary hippopotamus, 49

Llama, double stomach of, 60 _n._

Louis XIV., elephant belonging to, 57

Loxodon. _See_ Elephas Sumatranus, viii.

_Luca bos_, Roman term for the elephants of Pyrrhus, 4 _n._

_MACCABEES_, story of Jews killed by elephants, 16 _n._, 154 _n._

Machlis, an unknown animal, described by Pliny, 33

M‘GEE, Dr., his account of flies hurrying towards persons dying,
139 _n._

_Mahawanse_, mention of a white elephant in, 23

Mahout, elephant driver, the power of discrimination in India, x.

—— conduct of the mahouts in a corral, 129

—— mahouts said to die young, 166

Males, proportion of in a herd, small, 47

Malta, small fossil elephant found at, 159 _n._

Man, elephant has no natural antipathy to, 10

—— few deaths occasioned by them, 10

Manaar, singular scene on shipping elephants for India, 102

—— described in A.D. 1701, 102

_Marfil_, Spanish name for ivory, 4 _n._

—— _See Mafirm_, Portuguese, ib.

Marfil, Palma de, the vegetable ivory palm, 4 _n._

_Marfim_, Portuguese for ivory, 4 _n._

MASSOUDI, on the use of the elephant in war, 159 _n._

MATTHEW PARIS, his error as to the joints of the elephant, 36

Matura, elephants shipped from for India, 103

Mercer, Mr. Græme, story of a fight between two elephants, 16

Metatarsus, shortness of, enables the elephant to climb, 43

MOLYNEUX, his anatomy of the elephant, 56

Moormen of Ceylon, 97.
_See_ Panickeas.

MORRIS, Mr., conducts the corral in 1847, 109

MOULIN, A., his letter to Sir William Petty, 56 _n._

“_Mudda._” _See_ “Must,” 11

Muddy water not objected to by elephants, 55

Music, elephants’ love of, 168

“Must,” term explained, 11

NOUAER, size of African ivory at, 8 _n._

NATIVES of Ceylon, their narratives of accidents and adventures with
elephants, 71

Negombo, adventures with elephants at, 75

Nepal-root, a poison for elephants, 6

Nepal, mode of capturing elephants in, 97

Nile, White, enormous tusks got near, 8 _n._
_See_ Baker, Sir Samuel

Noises produced by elephants, 27

Noosers. _See_ Cooroowe, 122

—— their extraordinary courage, 136

Noosing elephants, as practised by the Panickeas, 99

Noosing in a corral, operation described, 122, 124

Numidia, Medal of, 156 _n._

OLFACTORY lobes, 26 _n._

Optic nerve in the elephant, 26 _n._

Osteology of the elephant. _See_ Teeth, viii. x.

OWEN, Prof., on the anatomy of the elephant, 56 _n._, 59, 60, 62

—— on the formation of ivory, 173

PAIN, patient endurance of, 168

PALLEGOIX, on the white elephant, 23 _n._

—— on sounds produced by elephants, 30 _n._

Palma de marfil, the vegetable ivory palm, 4 _n._

Panickeas, their marvellous skill as trackers, 97

—— their singular courage, 79

—— their method of capturing wild elephants, 99

—— mode of taming after capture, 101

—— their method of conducting the captives to the coast, 101

PARIS. _See_ MATTHEW PARIS.

Peccary, double stomach of, 58

PETHERICK, his account of large ivory in Soudan, 8 _n._

PHILE, his error as to the joints of the elephant, 35

—— difficulty of the elephant in rising, 30

—— elephant does not object to muddy water, 55 _n._

—— thinks the elephant hates the pig, 117 _n._

—— on elephants as executioners, 154 _n._

—— elephant’s love of music, 168 _n._

PHILLIPE, on the supposed superiority of the Ceylon to the Indian
elephant, 152

_Physiologus._ _See_ THEROALDUS, 36

PICTET, Prof., his essay on the derivation of the word _elephant_,
4 _n._

Pigs, antipathy of the elephant to. _See_ Swine, 14

—— spoil the capture at a corral, 116

Pingo, 71 _n._

Pit-falls, elephants surprised in, 67.

—— objections to, 96

PLINY, his fallacy as to the elephant shedding his tusks, 7 _n._

—— as to the antipathy of the elephant to other animals, 15

—— error as to the joints of the elephant, 32

—— the _machlis_, 33

—— terror of the elephant for white rods, 128

—— mode of taming it, 151

—— belief that the elephant has two hearts, 160

Poison for destroying elephants in Bengal, 6

POLYHISTOR. _See_ SOLINUS, 35

Ponnekella. _See_ Mahout, 122

Portuguese, elephant hunts conducted by, 95

—— origin of the word corral, 105

POTT, conjecture as to the derivation of the word “elephant,” 4 _n._

PRINGLE, on power of elephant to uproot trees, 162 _n._

Provençal song-writers, errors as to the elephant, 37

_Pseudodoxia Epidemica._ _See_ Sir THOMAS BROWNE.

Ptolemy Philopater, employs elephant to kill Jewish martyrs, 16 _n._

Punishments for tame elephants, 165

Puswael, a gigantic bean, 110

PYRARD, on the supposed superiority of the elephant of Ceylon to that
of India, 152

Pyrrhus, his elephants, 4 _n._, 150

RAIN, coming of foreseen by the elephant, 69

Raja-Kariya, 110.
_See_ Ripon.

Ramgur, method of poisoning elephants in, 6

Ranghani, the nooser, 123

—— his prowess and success, 127

Raté-mahat-meyas, encourage the taking of elephants in corrals, 111

REINAUD, on the use of the elephant in war, 154 _n._

Repose, peaceful, of the elephant, 84

Retirement, love of, 85

Rhinoceros, alleged antipathy between and the elephant, 9

Ripon, Earl of, abolishes rajakariya, 110

Rise, difficulty of the elephant to, 38, 39

Rogers, Major, story of his horse and the elephants, 13 _n._

—— elephant shot by him falls on its knees, 39

—— number killed by him, 77 _n._

Rogue elephant, their origin and habits, 46

—— their vice and depredations, 49, 50, 82 _n._

—— captured in a corral, 138

—— his death, 138

Rome, performance of elephants, 168 _n._, 183

Ronkedor. _See_ Rogue, 47 _n._

Ronquedue. _See_ Rogue, ib.

SAGACITY of the elephant, its superiority questioned, 68

—— Indian elephant said to excel the African in, 150

—— compared with that of the horse and dog, 161

Saragossa, elephant fight, exhibited, 10 _n._

SCHLEGEL, Prof., on the elephant of Sumatra, viii.

—— doubts its distinctness from the elephant of Ceylon, viii.-xi.

—— on the supposed superiority of the Ceylon to the Indian elephant,
152 _n._

Serpents, in Ceylon, more accidents from than from elephants, 10

SEVERAC, JORDANUS DE, on the mode of training elephants in Cambodia,
157 _n._

SHAKSPEARE, error as to the joints of the elephant, 37

—— on capturing elephants in pitfalls, 96 _n._

Shaw, fallacy as to the elephant shedding the tusks, 7 _n._

Shilook, size of African ivory at, 83

Shooting elephants, 77

—— cruelties of, 77 _n._

—— fatal spot in head, 79, and ear, ib.

Siam, elephant of, xi.

—— sounds produced by, 30 _n._

Sight, power of, 26

—— accuracy of eye when working, 162

Silhet, elephant of, x.

_Sinbad of the Sea_, story of the burial place of dead elephants, 181

Siribeddi, the female decoy, her ability, 123

—— her conduct, 145

SKINNER, MAJOR, story of his dog, 15

—— his description of a strange sound made by elephants, 29

—— finds elephant traces on Adam’s Peak, 41

—— number of elephants shot by him, 78

—— scene described by,—elephants at night, 51

—— story of the courage of an elephant hunter, 99 _n._

SLEAMAN, General, account of wolves suckling children, 47 _n._

Sloane, Sir Hans, on the anatomy of the elephant, 56 _n._

Smell, power of, 27, 98

SOLINUS, his error as to the joints of the elephant, 35

Sounds uttered by the elephant, 27

Soup, made from the elephant’s foot, 89

Speed of an elephant, 32

Sport. _See_ Shooting

Stomach of the elephant, double, 56

Stones, how raised by elephants, 162

STRACHAN, Mr., description of shipping elephants at Manaar, 103 _n._

—— on their liability to sudden death, 160 _n._

Structure of the elephant, 4

STUCKLEY, Dr. WILLIAM, on the anatomy of the elephant, 56 _n._

Sudden death, liability of elephants to, 159, 160 _n._

“Sun and moon,” emblems of duration, 187

Sumatra, elephant of, viii.

—— called _gadjah_, viii.

—— description by Temminck, vii. _n._

—— opinion of Prof. Schlegel on its distinctness from the elephant
of India, viii.

—— ribs and vertebræ, vii.

—— teeth of, viii.

—— this opinion controverted by Dr. Falconer, ix.

Surgical operations on elephants, 168

Swimming, action of the elephant in, 55

Swine, alleged antipathy of elephant to, 11, 14

TAME elephants, their conduct in the corral, 134.
_See_ Decoys

—— value of their labour 162, 174

—— levelling trees, 163

—— piling timber, 164

—— laziness, 165

—— punishments, 165

—— attachment to attendants, 166

—— medical treatment, 168, 170

—— obedience to orders, 169

—— causes of death in captivity, 171

—— weight of draught, 174

—— cost of feeding a tame elephant, 175

—— favourite food, 175

TAVERNIER, on the supposed superiority of the elephant of Ceylon,
153 _n._

Teeth of the Sumatran elephant, viii.

TEMMINCK’S _Dutch Possessions in India_, viii.

—— account of Sumatran elephant, viii.

THEROALDUS, _Physiologus_, error in, as to the joints of the elephant,
36

THEVENOT, on the supposed superiority of the Ceylon elephant to that
of India, 152

THOMSON, error in his _Seasons_, as to the joints of the elephant, 38

Timber, how dragged by elephants, 161 _n._, 162

—— wonderful skill in piling of, 164

Tipperah, elephant of, x.

Tissaweva. _See_ Anarajapoora, 65

Tooth-ache, 172

Training elephants, 150, &c.

—— first employments, 161

—— males more unmanageable than females, 158

—— process of, 150

—— varieties of disposition, 159

Trees, manner in which elephants level them, 146

—— stories of overthrowing exaggerated, 162

_Trompe._ _See_ Trunk

Trumpeting, peculiar sound of, 144

Trunk, so called from “trump,” 28

—— Aristotle compares the sound to a trumpet, ib.

—— strange drawings of, in the fifteenth century, 28 _n._

Tushes, their use to the elephant, 7

—— they, and not the tusks, shed, 7 _n._

Tuskers, influence of in the herd, 50

—— their efficiency in a corral, 136

Tusks, rare in the Ceylon elephant, 6

—— in Africa both male and female have them, 6

—— average weight of those imported, 60 cwt., 6 _n._

—— in Ceylon are light, owing to the animals being shot young,
6 _n._, 8

—— a favourite treasure in Buddhist temples, 6 _n._, 8

—— both sexes have, in India and Africa, 6 _n._, 8

—— fallacy as to the elephant shedding his tusks, 7

—— conjecture as to the presence of, in African elephant, and their
absence in that of India and Ceylon, 7

—— weight in various countries, 8 _n._

—— instance of a diseased one, 8 _n._
_See_ Brooke, Sir Victor

—— female elephant has none, in Ceylon, 9

—— not ordinarily used as weapons of offence, 9

—— fight between an elephant and two bulls, at Saragossa, 10 _n._

—— fight of two elephants with their tusks, 10

—— story in Maccabees of Jews killed by elephants, 16 _n._

—— what is their use, 17, 17 _n._

—— abnormal varieties in shape, 17 _n._

TYTLER, Mr., story of curiosity in elephants, 67 _n._

VALENTYN, his account of shipping elephants for India from Ceylon, 103

Vegetable ivory palm, 4 _n._

_Vulgar Errors._ _See_ Sir THOMAS BROWNE, 32

WATER, love of the elephant for, 4 _n._

—— attempt to derive the word _elephant_ from, 4 _n._

—— receptacle for, in the stomach, 56

—— quantities withdrawn by the trunk in the corral, 133

Weber’s _Metrical Romance_ of the thirteenth century, 12 _n._

Wells, dug by elephants, 54

White elephant; a lusus naturæ, 23

—— exhibited in Holland in 1633, 24

—— mentioned by Horace at Rome ib.

WHITE, GILBERT, of Selborne, on the affection of animals to the young
of others, 46 _n._

White oxen worshipped in Egypt, 23

WILKINSON, Sir GARDNER, on the knowledge of the elephant in ancient
Egypt, 152 _n._

WOLF, his strange adventures in Ceylon, 31 _n._, 48, 105 _n._

—— on the capture of wild elephants, 96 _n._

—— on the height of the elephant, 31

Wolves suckling children, 46 _n._

Wound of Lieut. Fretz, 90

WRIGHT’S _Reliquiæ Antiquæ_, 36

YOUNG, affection for, 47

Young elephants, their conduct when captured, 137

—— their tricks in captivity, 138, 148

YULE, Colonel, on the liability of the elephant to sudden death,
160 _n._

LONDON

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.

NEW-STREET SQUARE

POPULAR WORK ON NATURAL HISTORY BY REV. J. G. WOOD, M.A.

Second Edition now ready, in 1 vol. 8vo. price 21_s._ cloth; or, price 27_s._ half-bound in morocco by Rivière,

HOMES WITHOUT HANDS:

BEING A

DESCRIPTION OF THE HABITATIONS OF ANIMALS,

CLASSED ACCORDING TO THEIR PRINCIPLE OF CONSTRUCTION.

By J. G. WOOD, M.A., F.L.S.

With about 140 Illustrations engraved on Wood by G. Pearson, from Original Designs made by F. W. Keyl and E. A. Smith, under the Author’s superintendence.

‘_Homes Without Hands_ is more interesting than a fairy tale,
and shews how highly endowed are the inferior races, which
from the very first produced in perfection works to which the
nobler intellect of man could attain only after the discipline
and experience of centuries. There is scarcely an invention
of man of which the prototype may not be discovered in the
great patent office of Nature, nor a mechanical contrivance in
which he has not been anticipated by the insects and animals
which he is in the habit of regarding with contempt, if not
with loathing. The invention of paper was a new era in human
history, but wasps made veritable paper and papier-mâché from
the beginning of the world. Mankind waited through thousands
of years for Professor WHEATSTONE to invent the electric
telegraph, but the Arachnidæ had their lines in operation on
the morning when ADAM first opened his eyes upon the world.
The beaver was from the beginning conversant with the strength
and virtues of the arch; the burrowing spider made use of
the poppet valve; and as for the bearings of timbers and the
strength of materials, birds, beasts, and insects were well
acquainted with them thousands of years before VITRUVIUS or
TREDGOLD or FAIRBAIRN was born. The Author, in a fascinating
style and with a profusion of elegant engravings, illustrates
instinctive art in all its departments, from the labours of
the smallest insect up to those of the largest animal which
builds itself a dwelling. To enumerate the wonders contained
in the book we should be compelled to write an abstract of its
contents, for each page contains something that will interest
and delight the reader. It is a work calculated to bring
pleasures of the most rational and elevating kind into many
a school-room and many a family circle during the Christmas
season; and certainly it would be impossible to recommend a
more suitable book for a present to a young person.’

DAILY NEWS.

POPULAR WORKS BY DR. GEORGE HARTWIG.

Just published, with 8 full-page Engravings on Wood, from Original Designs by F. W. Keyl, and about 200 Woodcuts in the Text, in One Volume, 8vo. price 18_s._

THE HARMONIES OF NATURE;

OR, THE UNITY OF CREATION.

BY DR. GEORGE HARTWIG.

‘DR. HARTWIG has produced another delightful and instructive
volume, in which he illustrates the wonders of wisdom and
knowledge with which creation teems. The opening chapters
are devoted to a recapitulation of some of the magnificent
and astonishing phænomena which are observed in the heavens,
air, and sea, by way of developing the harmony which is
the universal law of nature. But throughout the greater
part of the work the Author confines himself to the domains
of vegetable and animal life; and here he accumulates a
surprising number of evidences of design, adaptation of
power, and inexhaustible resource. The work exhibits a very
unusual and most felicitous combination of accurate and
varied erudition with clear and popular writing. It is a true
instructor; for both the descriptions and the woodcuts with
which they are accompanied are scientifically correct, while
the narration is full of almost romantic interest. Each page
has some new wonder to enchant the youthful reader and excite
the reverent admiration of the thoughtful.... The reverence
and piety of Dr. HARTWIG’S works are a great recommendation
in days when scientific men seem to think their first duty in
speaking or writing is to avoid every word that could possibly
suggest the idea of a personal Deity and intelligent Creator.’

PATRIOT.

_Works by the same Author._

The TROPICAL WORLD: a Popular Scientific Account of the
Natural History of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdom in the
Equatorial Regions. With 8 Chromoxylographic Plates and
numerous Woodcuts. 8vo. 21_s._

The SEA and its LIVING WONDERS. With several hundred Woodcuts
in the Text, and a Series of Chromoxylographic Plates from
Original Designs by H. N. Humphreys. Third English Copyright
Edition. 8vo. 18_s._

‘This is the third edition, considerably enlarged, of the
first and best of Dr. HARTWIG’S beautiful and popular volumes
on natural history. The size of the book is increased by a
hundred pages; a good deal of it is remoulded; two whole new
chapters have been added, one on Marine Caves, the other on
Marine Constructions, such as Lighthouses and Breakwaters;
some of the old illustrations have disappeared, but their
place has been supplied by more and better; so that the new
edition really amounts to a recasting of the entire book. It
was a very good book before; it is better and more complete
now. Whether we regard the letterpress or the numerous
illustrations, it takes a rank second to none among ornamental
and popular books of science.’

GUARDIAN.

London: LONGMANS, GREEN, and CO. Paternoster Row.