(i) Geology and Palæontology I, Histoire comparée; II, Science moderne. 553 ARCHIAC (A. d'). Géologie et Paléontologie. Svo., pp. xvi, 776; cloth, Nurembery, 1758 Consists of an account of fossils and minerals found in and around Nuremberg. 555 DANA (J. D.). Manual of Mineralogy. New Edition, revised and enlarged. Svo., with woodcuts; cloth 1862 556 DIXON (F.). The GEOLOGY of SUSSEX; or the Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex. New Edition. Revised and augmented by T. Rupert Jones. Roy. 4to., with frontispiece and 63 plates (3 coloured); cloth Brighton, 1878 557 GEIKIE (J.). The Great Ice Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man. Third Edition, largely re-written. 8vo., pp. xviii, 850, with maps and illustrations; cloth (pub. £1. 5s) 1894 558 GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. TRANSACTIONS. [FIRST SERIES]. 5 vols., 1811-21.-SECOND SERIES. Vols. I-IV, 1824-36.—— together, 9 vols., 4to., with numerous plates, hf. bd. 1811-36 559 HADER (F. R. von) and G. 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THE FISHES OF INDIA, being a NATURAL HISTORY of the FISHES known to inhabit the Seas and Fresh Waters of INDIA, BURMA, and CEYLON. [With SUPPLEMENT.] 2 vols., impl. 4to., with 198 plutes figuring many hundred specimens (pub. £12. 12s); half morocco, uncut 1878-[88] 573 This work was prepared by order of H.M. Government of India. The specimens collected with a view to its compilation were at least 20,000 in number, and illustrative of nearly 900 species. The preface gives an account of all the naturalists who preceded the author in endeavouring to advance this branch of natural history in the East, with comments on such matters connected therewith as seem to be of interest to the scientific public, or relate to the economic value of the Fisheries. The FAUNA of BRITISH INDIA, including Ceylon and Burma. FISHES. 2 vols., large 8vo., with illustrations in the text; cloth (pub. £2. net) 1889 "The present work is chiefly an abridgment of the author's Fishes of India', published in 1876-78. 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