By the deep sea

The sea is the very fountain and reservoir of the life of this globe. As the heart is to man and his fellow vertebrates, so is the ocean to the world. It is the centre of the ci...

Some persons go to the seaside every year for several weeks, and yet know little of its treasures. Take away the bands, the bathing machines, the itinerant entertainers of vario...

To many persons the statement that we are going for a ramble among the rocks in quest of sponges will merely suggest the idea of wreckage, and they will suppose that we have had...

Not many years ago our knowledge of the lower forms of life was very imperfect, and it was believed that the gulf between the animal and vegetable kingdoms was bridged over by c...

It has been remarked that we get our best ideas of geography from the newspaper-man’s special correspondence in war time. Certainly, at such times certain places that are not ev...

The visitor to a rocky coast possesses the greatest advantage for the study of the Sea-Anemones. These are among the surprises for the inlander whose get-up is not too fine to a...

At low-water, turning over stones and looking into rock-crevices, we are sure to come across members of the _Echinodermata_--the creatures with tough and rough or spiny covering...

A chance reader picking up this volume by accident, or from curiosity, and opening it at this chapter, will in all probability put it down quickly with the remark, “Worms indeed...

The professional crab and lobster catcher has to provide himself with “pots” and “hullies” for the taking and storing of his crustaceans for the market, and ultimately the table...

Popularly there are about three British species of shrimps, including the Prawn; and the reader whose knowledge of our Crustacea is slight will look for a very brief chapter thi...

Besides the crabs and shrimps already enumerated there are to be found upon our shores a great variety of smaller species of Crustacea, representing widely differing tribes and...

Occasionally in strolling along a beach after a storm we shall encounter some wreckage that came ashore with the last wave of the incoming tide, and so failed to be washed off a...

One of the greatest hindrances to the unscientific, in the way of a proper understanding of the true nature and relative position of many forms of life, is to be found in our mi...

Mollusks that have their shell all in one piece are technically known as the Gasteropoda, or belly-footed creatures; but for our purpose the term sea-snail will serve admirably,...

The old trouble about a name crops up again. We have had to endure star-fish, jelly-fish, shell-fish, and now there remains cuttle--no, we will not say cuttle-_fish_. My neighbo...

The other day I was down in our porth when some of the fishermen of the village came in after hauling their trammels. There had been a “good bit of sea” running during the night...

We have no intention of attempting to give in this little book an account of British marine fishes. That is a task that needs several volumes for its accomplishment. But without...

One of the greatest charms of the sea-shore to the majority of visitors is afforded by the marine birds in their varied occupations of flying, swimming, diving, and walking. In...

It is to the rocky shore we must first turn our steps, if we desire to obtain a wide acquaintance with the British Seaweeds: that is the grand hunting ground for the Phycologist...

Just as in walking along the shore we have on one hand a region inhabited by specialised races of animal and plant-life altogether different from those of the land, so also on t...