POPULAR 

 BRITISH CONCHOLOGY. 



CHAPTER I. 



SEA-SIDE PLEASURES. LEATHEK-BAGS AND STARS. TUNICS OF THE ' TU- 



NICATA.' COMPOUND AND SIMPLE ASCIDIANS. APLIDIUM. EARLY AC- 

 TIVITY OF THE ASCIDIANS. — CLASSIFICATION. — PATIENCE NOT ALWAYS 

 REWARDED. 



TUNICATA. 



A PLEASANT and healthy recreation is that of wading among 

 the low rocks and seaweeds of the beach,, regardless of shoes 

 sopped in salt water, and occasional slips into ugly holes. 

 Then is the time to decide whether we have " eyes or no 

 eyes," or whether we C2t.n perceive, as well as see, the inter- 

 esting, the beautiful, the grand : the grand, in the towering 

 cliffs on either hand and the expanse before us ; the interest- 

 ing and beautiful, in the several forms of active and passive 



B 



