The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide / A Guide to the Study of the Seaweeds and the Lower Animal Life Found Between Tide-marks
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Classifies and describes the marine algae and invertebrate species found along the North American shores
Chapters (100)(click to expand)
- THE SEA-BEACH AT EBB-TIDE
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Signs on the Beach
- II. Collecting
- Rocky Shores
- Sandy Shores
- Muddy Shores
- Wharves And Bridges
- Equipment For Collecting Invertebrates
- Preserving Invertebrates
- Collecting And Preserving Seaweeds
- How To Arrange A Herbarium
- III. Classification
- IV. Animal Life in its Lowest Forms
- V. Distribution of Animal Life in the Sea
- VI. Some Botanical Facts About Algæ
- VII. Naming of Plants
- VIII. Distribution of Algæ
- IX. Some Peculiar and Interesting Varieties of Algæ
- Diatoms And Other Minute Algæ
- Red Snow
- The Sargasso Sea
- The Laminariaceæ
- X. Uses of Algæ
- XI. Collecting at Bar Harbor
- Part I. Marine Algæ
- I. Blue-Green Seaweeds and Grass-Green Seaweeds
- Table Showing the Classification of the Blue-green Seaweeds Described in This Chapter
- Blue-Green Seaweeds
- Table Showing the Classification of the Grass-green Seaweeds Described in This Chapter
- Grass-green Seaweeds
- II. Olive-Green and Brown Seaweeds
- Table Showing the Classification of the Olive-green And Brown Seaweeds Described in This Chapter
- Olive-green And Brown Seaweeds
- III. Red Seaweeds
- Table Showing the Classification of the Red Seaweeds Described in This Chapter
- Red Seaweeds
- Part II. Marine Invertebrates
- I. Porifera
- Table Showing the Classification of the Sponges Described in This Chapter
- Sponges
- II. Cœlenterata (Polyps)
- Cœlenterata
- Table Showing the Classification of the Hydrozoa Described in This Chapter
- Terms Used in Describing Hydroids
- Class Hydrozoa
- Table Showing the Classification of the Scyphozoa Described in This Chapter
- Class Scyphozoa
- Table Showing the Classification of the Actinozoa Described in This Chapter
- Class Actinozoa
- Table Showing the Classification of the Ctenophora Described in This Chapter
- Class Ctenophora
- III Worms (Platyhelminthes Nemathelminthes Annulata)
- Table Showing the Classification of the Worms Described in This Chapter
- Worms
- Phylum Platyhelminthes
- Phylum Nemathelminthes
- Phylum Annulata
- IV. Molluscoida.
- Table Showing the Classification of the Molluscoida Described in This Chapter
- Terms Used In Describing Polyzoa
- Polyzoa
- V. Echinodermata.
- Terms Used In Describing The Structure Of Echinoderms
- Echinodermata
- Table showing the classification of the Starfishes in this chapter
- Class Asteroidea
- Table Showing the Classification of the Brittle-stars Described in This Chapter
- Class Ophiuroidea
- Table Showing the Classification of the Echinoidea Described in This Chapter
- Class Echinoidea
- Table Showing the Classification of the Holothuroidea Described in This Chapter
- Class Holothuroidea
- Class Crinoidea
- VI. Arthropoda.
- Table Showing the Classification of the Arthropods Described in This Chapter
- Terms Used in Describing Crustacea
- Arthropoda
- Anatomy Of The Higher Crustacea
- VII. Mollusca.
- Table Showing the Classification of the Mollusks Described in This Chapter
- Terms Used In Describing Mollusks
- Mollusks
- Classification
- Class Amphineura
- Table Showing the Classification of the Gasteropods And Scaphopods Described in This Chapter
- Class Gasteropoda
- Class Scaphopoda
- Table of the Commoner North American Pelecypods Described in This Chapter
- Class Pelecypoda
- Table Showing the Classification of the Cephalopods Described in This Chapter
- Class Cephalopoda
- VIII. Chordata.
- Table Showing the Classification of the Chordata Described in This Chapter
- Chordata: Class Urochorda or Tunicata
- Simple Ascidians
- Compound Ascidians
- Index
- CORRIGENDA
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