56 NATURE NOTES 
An Outline of the Natural History of our Shores. By Joseph Sinel. 5J inches 
X 8 inches. 345 pages. 120 Photographs. Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 
Price 7s. 6d. 
Mr. Sinel is greatly to be congratulated upon the result of his efforts. He 
has skilfully put together a vast amount of information, so that it occupies quite 
a small compass, and yet at the same time is eminently readable. Moreover, he 
has illustrated it with a series of most excellent photographs from Nature (see 
figs. 21 and 22). Although all the great groups of animals with marine repre- 
sentatives are treated one after the other, room has also been found to discuss 
general and special subjects. The land creatures, which, as it w»ere, are creeping 
Figure 21. — Tim Sea “ Hare,” Aflysia funetata. nat. size. 
(From “An Outline of the Natural History of our Shores,” by the courtesy of 
Messrs. Swan, Sonnenschein and Co.) 
back to the sea, are dealt with, and among them is a curious mite which has 
hind legs, which it raises in the air, and which look for all the world like the 
capsules of moss. Protective colouration and mimicry have a chapter devoted 
especially to them, though these subjects are touched upon from lime to time in 
the body of the book. Collecting and preserving, the making of micros- 
co|)ic jireparations and the keeping of a marine aquarium, come in also for a share 
of attention. We think that this book .should be in the hands of every boy and 
girl who has any taste for Natural History. 
