THE WONDERS OF THE SHORE. 51 



than he would have learnt in tliree years' desul- 

 tory hunting on his ovra account; and he has 

 often regretted that no naturalist has established 

 shore-lectures at some watering-place, like those 

 up hill and down dale field-lectures which, in 

 pleasant Ijygone Cambridge days, Professor Sedg- 

 wick used to give to young geologists, and Pro- 

 fessor Henslow to young botanists. 



This want, however, bids foir to be supplied 

 at last. That most pious and most learned natu- 

 ralist, Mr. Gosse, whose works will be so often 

 (juoted in these pages, purposes, it is understood, 

 to establish this summer a regular shore-class, 

 I)robably at Weymouth. And I advise any read- 

 er whose fancy such a project pleases, to apply to 

 him for detuils of the scheme, cither at his own 

 house, 58 Huntingdon Street, IJarnsbury Park, 

 IslingfDii, or at the Linntvan or Microscopic So- 

 ciety. 



In the nionn while, to show something of what 

 such a chws might l)c, let me put myself, in imagi- 

 nation, in ]\Ir. Gosse's place, and do his work for 

 him for half an hour, though in a far more shal- 

 low and rlumny way. 



Leaving Weymouth l<> liini, let mc take yon 

 to a shore where I am mon- at Immc, aiid for 



