Index:Sea and River-side Rambles in Victoria.djvu
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Initial Letter: Growing taste for Marine Zoology; Cheap Books on the subject necessary; Occupation at the Sea-side.
Mind and Body Exhausted by constant toil, 3; Change of Scene necessary, 3; Decide on Visiting Lady Bay, 4; Voyage there, 4; Sand Hummocks, 5; Warrnambool, 5; Rock Pools near Merri River, 6; Diatoms, 6; The Beach, 6; Portuguese Man-of-war, 7; Suicidal Starfishes, 9; Their Suckers, 9; Shells, 10.
Vignette: Whalers's Bluff, Portland Bay.
Conchology, 11; Mollusca, 11; Cuttle Fishes, 12; Spirula, 12; Gasteropoda, 12; Their Opercula or Covers, 12; Sea Snails, 13; Truncatella, 13; Pheasant Shell, 13; Boat Shells, 14; Air-breathing Mollusca, 14; Shellfish for Aquaria, 14; Tongue of Limneea, 15; Eggs of Limneea, 15; Sea Slugs, 17; Bubble Shell, 17; Lamp Shell, 17; Lantern Shell, 17; Teredo at Williamstown, 18; Long lived Molluscs, 18; Shell Cabinets, 18.
Vignette: Group of Serpulæ on a valve of Arca shell. Ramble coastwards to Hopkins, 20; Wild Flowers, 21; Emu Wren, 21; Shells in Pertrobe Lagoon, 22; Gentiana montana, 22; Wombat, 23; Botanic Gardens, 23; Sea-Anemones, 24; Their Voracity, 25; Prehensile Tentacles, 26; Urticating Organs, 27; Used as Food, 28; Alyxia luxifolia, 29; Wedge-tailed Eagle, 29.
Vignette: Terebella.
Sea Eggs—their spines and suckers, 31; The Caves, 33; Purpura and Ear-shells, 33; Hermit Crab, 34; Crab clothed with Algae, 35; Birds of the Sea-shore, 36.
Vignette: Hippocampus or Sea Horse.
Corio Bay, 38; Naturalist at home everywhere, 38; Occupation at Seaside, 39; Gulls, Cormorants, Pelicans, Oyster Catcher, Greenshank, and Grebe, 39; Collecting Paraphernalia, 41; Aviculæ, 41; Planaria, 42; Its Eyes, 42; Nereis, 43; Terebella, 43; Serpulæ, 43; Kangaroo Crab, 46; Pipe Fishes—male performs duties of incubation, 47; Sharks, Sea Cucumbers—their strange habits, 48.
Vignette: Kangaroo Crab (Ibacus Peronii.)
Hobson's Bay, St. Kilda, Brighton, 50; Coast Plants, 51; Squids—their habits and structure, 52; Mighty Krackens 55; Sting-Ray, 55; Zoophytes, 56; Errors of early Naturalists respecting them, 58.
Vignette: Fossil Spatangi and Terebratulæ.
Evening Studies, 61; Starfishes again, 61; Dental Apparatus of Echini, 62; How to preserve Echinodermata, 63; Sea Squirts, 64; Stormy Petrels, 64; Actiniæ, 65; Jelly Fishes, 65; Parasites on them, 65; Cunning of Octopus, 66; Shells as Microscopic Objects 67.
Vignette: Wedge-tailed Eagle.
Strides of Science, 69; Difficulty of preserving Marine Objects, 69; Aquaria, 71; Their Construction, 71; How to Form, 72; Seasand and Rockwork, 73: Double Aquaria, 74; Artificial Sea-water, 75; Seaweeds, 76; Respiration of the Lower Animals, 77; Climbing Fish, 78; Stock, 78; Portable Microscopes, 79; Æration, 80; Maintenance, 81; Removal of Objects, 81; Freshwater Aquaria, 81.
Seaweeds, 83; Queenscliff Pools, 84; Melanosperms, 84; Rhodosperms, 85; Chlorosperms, 86; White ones to be rejected, 86; Marine Sensitive Plant, 86; Uses of Seaweeds, 87; Roots of Seaweeds yield hosts of microscopic objects, 88; to Collect, 88; to Preserve, 89; to Forward by Post, 89; to Lay Out, 89; Subsequent Arrangement and Examination, 89.
River-Side Rambles.—Vignette: Coliban Falls.
The Moorabool, 94; River-Side Wanderings at Home, 95; Flycatcher, 96; Reed Warbler, 97; Bitterns, 97; Spicy Mints, 97; the Damasonium, 97; Freshwater Algæ, 98; Unio and other Shells, 99; Fishing 99; Life in the Woods, 100; Fossils, 100; Mosquitoes, 100; Barwon Falls, 101; Clematis, 101; Betony-leaved Violets, &c, 102; Bullrush Caterpillar, 103.
Group of Sphæriæ. Page 109. The Hopkins, its rise, 110; beautifully Timbered, 111; Marsupialia, 111; Acorn Shells, 113; Barnacle Geese, 114; Nankeen Herons, Blue Crane, Egrets, &c., 115; Black Swans, 116; Butterfly Gurnard, 116; Sweet-scented Plants, 118; Seaweeds as Objects of Design, 118.
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