Genre:

Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Natural History, Publishing, Government, Politics

    Announces several works in natural history in which the author and/or contents are satirically related to the title of the work. For example, 'Humming Birds' is described as a work containing a 'Memoir and Portraits of Robert Peel [the Prime Minister], Lord Stanley [the Colonial Secretary], and Lord Aberdeen [the Foreign Secretary]'.