An outline of the natural history of our shores / by Joseph Sinel with chapters on collecting and preserving marine specimens, methods of microscopic mounting, etc., and on the marine aquarium.

  • Sinel, Joseph, 1890-1975.
Date:
1906
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: An outline of the natural history of our shores / by Joseph Sinel with chapters on collecting and preserving marine specimens, methods of microscopic mounting, etc., and on the marine aquarium. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS PAGE Introductory ....... 1 The Uses and Pleasures of an Acquaintance with Natural Science—Claims of Marine Zoology to a Place iiTthe Front Rank CHAPTER I The Protozoa ....... 7 The Flagellata, Ciliata, and Radiolaria—The Fora- minifera. Antiquity of—Factors in Geology, their Physiology, Reproduction, etc.—How to obtain and study the Living Forms CHAPTER II PORIFERA * . . . . . . .16 Classification, Anatomy and Physiology, Reproduction, etc.—Chief British Forms—Their Habitats—Plan for Identification, etc. CHAPTER ITI The C(elenterata . . . . . .29 Section 1.—The Actinozoa, Simple and Compound— Anatomy—Reproduction—Relation to the Corals— Corals, how built up—Illustrations from British Types Section 2.—The Hydroid Zoophytes—Structure—Alter- nate Generations—Modes of Reproduction—Nutri- tion, etc. Section 3.—The larger Medusae or Jelly-fishes—Structure, Sense Organs, etc.—Reproduction—Vast Methods of this accounting for sudden Swarms of these The Chief British Types of Ccelenterates, their Habitats, etc.