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The natural history of the same region had other charms for the 

 enterprising spirit of De la Beche. To dredge the sea, to gather 

 the living wonders of the deep, suited the bold swimmer and skilful 

 boatman ; to examine the structure and habits of marine creatures 

 was not less congenial to the microscopic observer and the accurate 

 and forcible artist. The " Notes on the Habits of a Caryophyllia from 

 Torquay " (Zool. Journ. 1828), and the " Catalogue of the Birds and 

 Mollusca in the vicinity of Geneva," are indeed all that remain to 

 mark the strong interest felt by De la Beche in recent Natural 

 History ; but they who have accompanied him over miles of land 

 and sea know well the untiring delight with which, even in later 

 life, he would scrutinize the isochronous movements of Rhizostoma, 

 the varying hues of Octopus, the sensibility to light of the Bryozoa, 

 how sharp his attention to the peculiar instincts of the animal 

 creation. 



To such a miad came easily and naturally the inquiry into the 

 osteological relations of the huge fossil reptilia, so long known, but 

 so little understood by the collectors of fossils at Bath, Glastonbury 



