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FROM MR. MURRAY'S LIST.

A NATURALIST IN INDIAN SEAS; or Four Years with the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship 'Investigator.' By A. Alcock, M.B., LL.D., F.B.S., Superintendent of the Indian Museum and Professor of Zoology in the Medical College of Bengal. With Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 18s. net. Just out.

The Contents include an outline of the origin of Marine Survey in East Indian waters; an account of the objects and methods of marine surveying in general, and particularly of the methods employed in deep-sea research; a general sketch of the hydrography and zoology of the Indian Sea-basins, with numerous original biological observations and nearly a hundred figures of all the characteristic types of deep-sea life; narratives of four surveying-cruises to numerous coasts and estuaries of the Indian Peninsula, and to many of the little-known Islands of the Andaman and Laccadive Archipelagos; a descriptive Catalogue of 'Investigator' deep-sea dredging stations; and a complete bibliography of the scientific work hitherto published by the Naturalists' Department of the Indian Marine Survey.


JUST OUT.—NEW BOOK ON SPORT.

FISHING AND SHOOTING. By Sydney Buxton, M.P. With Illustrations by Archibald Thorburn. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

The Fishing Gazette says:—"One of the best books on sport which we have had for a long time.... The rest of the work I must reserve for another note, contenting myself now with a strong recommendation to my readers to get Mr. Buxton's capital work."


A BOOK OF WHALES. By F.E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S. With Forty Illustrations by Sidney Berridge. Large 8vo. 6s.

THE BIRDS OF SIBERIA. A Record of a Naturalist's Visits to the Valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei. By the late Henry Seebohm. With the Author's Latest Corrections. With Numerous Illustrations. Large 8vo. 12s. net.

JOHN MURRAY. ALBEMARLE STREET, W.


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NATURAL HISTORY AGENT AND BOOKSELLER,

40, TRIANGLE West, CLIFTON, BRISTOL.

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