The Sea Shore

The sub-kingdom _Mollusca_ includes a great variety of soft-bodied animals which differ from the members of the last division in the fact that they are never segmented, and in t...

We now pass from the animal to the vegetable kingdom, our object being to give a general outline of the nature and distribution of the principal marine algæ or sea weeds that gr...

The sub-kingdom _Arthropoda_ contains a vast assemblage of animals, all of which, as the name implies, possess jointed appendages. Their bodies are covered with a skin that is h...

A considerable number of our flowering plants exhibit a decided partiality for the neighbourhood of the sea, and many are to be found only on the sea cliffs or in salt marshes n...

The vertebrates form the highest sub-kingdom of animal life--the sub-kingdom to which we ourselves belong, the chief distinguishing characteristic of the group being the presenc...

One of the most interesting groups of marine life is that including jelly-fishes and anemones. In it are the pretty little sea firs, so often mistaken for sea-weeds by the youth...

The sea-side naturalist, in the course of his ramblings and searchings on the coast, will certainly come across many objects, dead or alive, that he will desire to set aside for...

We have already advised our readers to take home their specimens alive for the purpose of studying their growth and habits. Now, although there may be some difficulties in the w...

We do not propose dealing with this subject from the point of view of the angler, but rather that of the naturalist. The former is actuated principally, if not entirely, by the...

Some groups of animals are so well defined that the individual species contained in them can be assigned their proper place without any difficulty, the main characteristics by w...

What are the attractions which so often entice us to the sea shore, which give such charm to a ramble along the cliffs or the beach, and which will so frequently constrain the m...

Still passing up the scale of animal life, we now come to the _Echinodermata_--the other sub-kingdom which we have already referred to as forming, with the Cœlenterates, the old...

Assuming that the reader is one who desires to become intimately acquainted with the wonderful and varied forms of life to be met with on the sea shore, or, hoping that he may b...

An enthusiastic observer of nature will learn much concerning the structure of natural objects with the unaided eye, but there are times when he will desire some kind of magnifi...

We shall now study the principal forms of animal life to be found on the sea shore; and, in order that the reader may thoroughly understand the broader principles of classificat...

It seems to be the popular opinion that sponges are essentially natives of the warmer seas, and it will probably be a surprise to many young amateur naturalists to learn that th...