X. CONTENIS. 



Rose — Spurge — Land Shells — Garden Snail — Banded Snail — 

 Heath Snail — Silky Snail — Stone Snail — ^Elegant Cydostome 

 — ^Reasons of hidden Things discoverable — Glory to God in 

 Praise— The Broad-claw — ^Its Manners — ^TTse of the Foot-jaws 

 — Their exquisite Structure — A living Casting Net — ^Use of the 

 hind Feet — A Dredging Day — Quay Scene — Nature and TJse 

 of the Dredge — Oyster Dredge — Naturalist's Dredge — Keer- 

 drag — ^Roman Advice — Jonah Fowler — ^His Qualifications — 

 Preston "VaUey — A Cast of the Drag — Its Produce — Osming- 

 ton — Burning Cliff — ^Whitenose — A tragical Adventure — 

 Examination of a Dredge-haul — Brittle-stars — Sunstar — 

 Bird's foot— CribeUa — Beauty of Starfish,es^Soldier-crab — 

 Cloak Anemone — Spider-crabs — Sepiole — Its Beauty — ■ 

 Changes of Colour — Curious Mode of Bvirrowiug — Accessory 

 Uses of Organs — Discharge of Ink — Murderous Propensities. 



40—73 



CHAPTER IV. 



Excursion to Wyke— Advent of Summer— Rural Sights and 

 Sounds — Cockchafers — Larks — Starling — Wake-robin — Ger- 

 mander Speedwell — Recollections— View of "Weymouth Bay 

 Fern " SheUs"— Belfield— "Wood Plants— Clausilia— Magpies 

 — Blackbirds — Cuckoo's Note — Apologies — "Wyke Church — 

 The Fleet -Chesil Beach— Spotted Goby— Flatfish— Sand 

 Launce — Strange Variety of Daisy Anemone — Its Parturition 

 — ChesQ — The Beach — Lobster fishing — Rocky Shore — Sea- 

 weeds — The Long-tongued Medusa — ^Pearl-sheUs — ^Thorns 

 turned to Gems— Belmont Ledges— The Goblet Lucemaria— 

 Its Habits and Afiinities. 74 95 



CHAPTER V. 



Promenade on the Nothe— The Jetty— The Mixon— A fertile 

 Garden of Algae- Tangles— Rhodosperms— Chlorosperms— 

 Laver— The splendid Cystoseira— The Floods of Adversity— 

 My own Tank— Disappointments— The Contents— Crowds of 

 unexpected Guests— Results— The Black Goby— Its cannibal 

 Propensities— Changes of Colour— Sucking Fin-disk— Mullet 

 Fry— Their Manner of Feeding— Efforts to breathe Air— 

 "Wrasses— Their Beauty— Explanation of Frontispiece— The 



