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ment. It is good to begin, therefore, if possible, 

 by playing the part of "jackal" to some practised 

 naturalist, wlio will show the tyro where to look, 

 what to look for, and, moreover, what it is that he 

 has found ; often no easy matter to discover. Five- 

 and-twenty years ago, during an autumn's work of 

 dead-leaf-searching in the Devon woods for poor old 

 Dr. Turton, while he was writing his book on British 

 land-shells, the present wTiter learnt more of the 

 art of observing than he would have learnt in three 

 years' desultory hunting on his own account ; and 

 he has often regretted that no naturalist has estab- 

 lished shore-lectures at some watering-place, lilve 

 those up hill and down dale field-lectures which, 

 in pleasant bygone Cambridge days, Professor Sedg- 

 wick used to give to young geologists, and Professor 

 Henslow to young botanists. 



This want, however, bids fair to be supplied at 

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

 quoted in these pages, has now established summer 

 shore-classes ; and I advise any reader whose fancy 

 such a project pleases, to apply to him for details 



