Xll CONTENTS. 



of hidden Things discoverable — Glory to God in Praise— The 

 Broad-claw — Its Manners — Use of the Foot-jaws — Their exquisite 

 Structure — A living Casting-net — Use of the hind Feet — A 

 Dredging Day — Quay Scene — Nature and Use of the Dredge — 

 Oyster Dredge — Naturalist's Dredge — Keer-drag — Eoman Advice 

 —Jonah Fowler — His Qualifications — Preston Valley — A Cast of 

 the Drag — Its Produce — Osmington — Burning Cliff — Whitenose 

 — A tragical Adventure — Examination of a Dredge-haul — Brittle- 

 stars — Sunstar — Bird's foot — Cribella — Beauty of Starfishes — 

 Soldier-Crab — Cloak Anemone — Spider-crabs — Sepiole — Its 

 Beauty — Changes of Colour — Curious Mode of Burrowing — 

 Accessory Uses of Organs — Discharge of Ink — Murderous Pro- 

 pensities 33 — 66 



CHAPTEE lY. 



Excursion to Wyke — Advent of Summer — Eural Sights and Sounds 

 — Cockchafers — Larks — Starling — Wake-robin — Germander 

 Speedwell — EecoUections — View of Weymouth Bay — Fern 

 " Shells "— Belfield— Wood Plants— Clausilia— Magpies— Black- 

 birds — Cuckoo's Note — Apologies — Wyke Church — The Fleet — 

 Chesil Beach — Spotted Goby — Flatfish — Sand Launce — Strange 

 Variety of Daisy Anemone — Its Parturition — Chesil — The Beach 

 — Lobster fishing — Eocky Shore — Sea-weeds — The Long-tongued 

 Medusa — Pearl-shells — Thorns turned to Gems — Belmont Ledges 

 — The Goblet Lucernaria — Its Habits and Affinities . . 67 — 88 



CHAPTEE V. 



Promenade on the Nothe — The Jetty — The Mixon — A fertile 

 Garden of Algse — Tangles — Ehodosperms — Chlorosperms — Laver 

 — The splendid Cystoseira — The Floods of Adversity — My own 

 Tank — Disappointments — The Contents — Crowds of unexpected 

 Guests — Eesults — The Black Goby — Its cannibal Propensities — 

 Changes of Colour — Sucking Fin-disk — Mullet Fry — Their Manner 

 of Feeding — Efforts to breathe Air — Wrasses — Their Beauty — 

 Explanation of Frontispiece — The Corkwing — The Green Wrasse 

 — Habits of a Corkwing — Its tragical Fate — Pipefishes — The 

 Two-spotted Sucker — Suggested Use of its Mechanism — Analogy 

 of the Echeneis — Spawn of the Sucker — Double Vision — Examples 



