The sea-shore / [P. Martin Duncan].

  • Peter Martin Duncan
Date:
1879
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The sea-shore / [P. Martin Duncan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS, CHAPTER I. The Sea-shore, its nature and limits, beginning and ending, Breadths and Zones—How worn—Its Sand, Pebbles, Rocks, and Mud—The growth of the Shore, its former extension, the Wreck of the Land—Geological changes— Zones of Life and Depth limiting the Shore—The Natural History Provinces of the Shore page 9 CHAPTER II. The Plants near the Shore—The difference between Inland and Coast Vegetation—The Maritime kinds of the ordi- nary British Plants and their especial localities—Sea- weeds of the Shore between high and low tide-mark— The olive, green, and red kinds—Corallines and Nulli- pores page 23 CHAPTER III. The Microscopic Plants and Animals—Diatomacese—Ani- malcules and Spores—The Foraminifera—Sponges, and their Reproduction and Habits — The Shell-boring Sponge page 68
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