36 SEA-SIDE STUDIES. 



First, then, as indispensable, there must be an "Animal 

 Kino-dom " — if not Cuvier's, then Vooi;'s " Zoolo2:ische 

 Briefe," or Eymer Jones's "General Outline of the 

 Organisation of the Animal Kingdom/' richly illus- 

 trated, or Mr Dallas's recently published volume, "The 

 Natural History of the Animal Kingdom," cheap and 

 very compact. Next you must have Mr Gosse's in- 

 valuable "Manual of Marine Zoology" — meant ex- 

 pressly for identification ; and you may add the very 

 cheap and comj^endious " Manual of the Mollusca," by 

 Mr Woodward, published among Weale's series of 

 Eudimentary Treatises. If you can lay hands on 

 Johnston's " British Zoophytes," Forbes's " Naked- 

 Eyed Medusae " and " British Starfishes," and Alder 

 and Hancock's "Nudibranchiate Mollusca,'' you will be 

 set up. It is needless to name works of Histology or 

 Comparative Anatomy, because, if your studies lie in 

 these directions, you will already have possessed your- 

 self of what is necessary. 



And now, when all is done, the Microscope is taken 

 out, and severer studies begin. The hours I spent 

 thus, fled like minutes, and left behind them traces as 

 of years, so crowded were they with facts new and 

 strange, or if not absolutely new, yet new in their 

 definiteness, and in the thoughts they suggested. The 

 typical forms took possession of me. They were ever 

 present in my waking thoughts ; they filled my dreams 

 with fantastic images ; they came in troops as I lay 

 awake during meditative morning hours ; they teased 

 me as I turned restlessly from side to side at night ; 



