Excerpt from The Victorian Naturalist, Vol. 14: The Journal and Magazine of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria; May, 1897, to April, 1898 On visiting the seashore it may be that the tide is in, so that we can only stroll along the edge of the water, and pick up an occasional seaweed drifted in and thrown on the shore by the waves. We ought to place these by themselves, as we cannot be certain of their locality. After a time the tide begins to recede, and our first rocky pool is accessible. Going down on our knees, knife in hand, we slip the blade under a delicate structure as close to the rock as possible, then place our first find in our bottle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.