Glimpses of Ocean Life; Or, Rock-Pools and the Lessons they Teach

The work offers an accessible naturalist's survey of shore life, combining practical aquarium tips, microscopic observations, and vivid accounts of marine animals. It moves from minute infusoria and sea anemones through crustaceans—hermit crabs, prawns, and crabs—and barnacles to annelids, molluscs, jellyfish, nudibranchs, bivalves, rock-borers, starfish, sea urchins, cucumbers, and other echinoderms. Emphasis falls on behavior, reproduction, molting, feeding habits, and methods for study and capture, illustrated with personal anecdotes and field observations that aim to make marine zoology approachable for amateur naturalists.