The Sea Shore

A practical introduction to coastal natural history that guides beginners and young collectors through the shore’s physical features and techniques for observing and obtaining specimens. It offers instruction on sea angling, constructing and maintaining a salt-water aquarium, and methods for preserving and dissecting material, together with elementary principles of classification. Subsequent chapters present concise surveys of the main littoral groups — protozoa, sponges, coelenterates, echinoderms, marine worms, molluscs, crustaceans, fishes, seaweeds and flowering shore plants — supported by identification notes, numerous illustrations and coloured plates to assist field study.