CONTENTS, 



CHAPTER I. 



ACORN-BARNACLES. 



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Sea -side Caution to Bathers Effects of Barnacles (Acorn- 

 shells) Abundance of Barnacles in the Frith of Forth 

 Their Beauty when placed in Sea^water Mode of 

 Fishing for Food Old Accounts of Transformation of a 

 Ship-barnacle to a Solan-goose Opinions of Hector 

 Boece and Grerarde upon this point, &c., . . 1 



CHAPTER II. 



PERIWINKLES, WHELKS (PURPURA, ETC.) 



Periwinkles or Buckies " Ye 're shurely nae ga'en to ate thae 

 snails]" Periwinkles a Classical Article of Diet Roman 

 Preserves for them The Buckie on the Rock and in 

 the Aquarium Its Utility as a Scavenger Its curious 

 Dental Apparatus Interest attached to the Limpet as 

 an Object of Study Singular Structure of its Tongue 

 Mode of Rock-burrowing practised by the Limpet Dog- 

 winkle Purpura Lapillus Tyrian Dye Means of 

 procuring it Voracity of the Purpura Curious instance 

 of Instinct at fault, &c. . . . .15 



