CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I. 



Eeturn of Spring — Flight to the Coast — Weymouth Bay — Its 

 Grandeur — ^Portland Breakwater — Its Utility — Harbour of 

 Refuge — Aquarium at the' Zoological Gardens — History of 

 the Scheme — Gradual Enunciation of the Principle — Priestley 

 — Ellis — Baubeny's Researches — Ward^Johnston — AVaring- 

 ton's Experiments — Their "complete Success. Page 1 — 13 



CHAPTER II. 



Reconnoitring — Walk along the Beach — Belmont Bay — Shingle 

 unproductive — Sea-grass — Lucky-stone — Power of Memory 

 — Byug Cliff — Rocky Ledges — Promises — Scene from the 

 Cliff — Steamer ' Contractor' — Birds and Insects — Oil Beetle 

 — Loon — ^Peculiarity of Tide — Collecting Sea-weeds — ^Mode 

 of Operation — ^Fissures — Delesseria — Chondrus — Lauren cia — 

 Oarweeds — Dulse — Chylocladia — Coralline — Ulva— Cladopho- 

 ra — Method of Bislodgment — Its Risks and Difficulties — 

 Collecting Animals — Yellow Winkle — Periwinkle — Its Use- 

 fulness — Coirfervoid Growth in Aquarium — Removed by the 

 Mollusks — Their manner of Eating — -Periwinkle's Tongue — 

 Its Action and Efficiency — Weymouth Anemone — Its Varie- 

 ties — Black Samd-worm— Yellow Doris — Cowry — Hairy Crab 

 — Lobster Prawn. 14 — 39 



CHAPTER ni. 



Craving for the Remote — ^ Visit to Portland — Wilderness of Stone 

 — ^Barren Shore — Tansy — Cowslips and Hyacinths — Burnet 



