XIV CONTENTS. 



fishes— The Thornback— The Painted Ray— The Bordered Ray— 

 The Angel — The Gemmed Sea-slug — Forest-bearing Crabs — 

 Shrimps — Garret Windows — ^sop-prawns — Cranch's Jilsop — 

 White's jEsop — The Scarlet-lined vEsop— The Plumose Anemone 

 — Its Beauty and Size — Variation in Colour — The Disk — Its 

 Sociality — Its Locomotion — The Runcina — The Fiddler Crab — 

 His natatory Powers — A "striking" Species — His grim Habits — 

 Ferocity — Indiscriminate Greediness — Tit for Tat — An odd Fish 

 — Use of the Lamm— A Fisherman's "Rubbish" — Plate Armour 

 — A fine Beard — Its probable Use — The Nothe Ledges — Various 

 Sea- weeds— Phyllophora—Codium — Griffithsia—Rivularia 177-197 



CHAPTER IX. 



A Meditation — The Spiritual Use of Ifatural History — Extremes of 

 Opinion — Scriptural Warrant for the Study — Its Limits — Three 

 inspired Modes of Treatment — I. Direct Testimony to God — 

 Founded on our Ignorance — On our Knowledge — Various Attri- 

 butes of God discoverable — Responsibilities — Cain's Offering — 

 XL Moral Lessons by Examples — HI. Spiritual Parallelisms — 

 Similes — Types — Symbols — Allegories — God's Message of Grace. 



198—209 



CHAPTER X. 



Autumnal Gales— Lucernaria — Mode of finding it — Analogy with 

 Medusa— Description — Habit of Bell Lucernaria — Last Look at 

 Weymouth — London Studies — The Spinous Cockles — Their gym- 

 nastic Feats — Fine Appearance of the Foot — Open-heartedness — 

 The Siphons and their Use — Strange Creatures in the Sea — The 

 Rough Syrinx — Value of a Bit of Stone — The Terebella — Ancient 

 Masonry — Crawling and Swimming Feats — The Gold-comb — Its 

 Tube — Its Combs — Their Use — Its Mode of Burrowing — Respira- 

 tion — Structure of the Tail — The Gills — The Spears — Use of 

 these Organs — Self-abolition — A Faculty of Echinoderms — ^Brittle- 

 stars — Cross-fish — Suicide of one — Holothuriee — Chirodota — Its 

 Structure — Its Manners— Ovarian Threads— -Effusion of Colour — 

 — The Leaf- Worms — Their Elegance— Evolution of the Stomach 

 — A new Species — Structure of the Spears — Use of these Organs 

 not entirely known — Respiration — Reflections . . . 210—248 



