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A Year at the Shore

Chapter 17: Transcriber's Note
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About This Book

A month-by-month naturalist account of coastal life that surveys rock pools, beaches, and nearshore habitats, offering detailed descriptions of mollusks, crustaceans, sea anemones, fishes, and seaweeds. Individual species receive close attention to form, color, anatomy, and behavior, including feeding, locomotion, and sensory organs, alongside notes on life cycles, spawning, and interactions that shape shore communities. The author combines field observation with aquarium experiments, discusses human uses such as shell and fish trades and coastal alteration by organisms, and conveys seasonal change through vivid descriptive passages and colored illustrations.

Transcriber's Note

Illustrations have been moved next to the text which they illustrate, and may no longer match the locations given in the List of Illustrations.

Page headers have been converted to sidenotes.

The following apparent errors have been corrected:

  • p. 21 "tranverse" changed to "transverse"
  • p. 50 "‘the" changed to "“the"
  • p. 51 "point," changed to "point."
  • p. 51 "foot." changed to "foot,"
  • p. 61 "Inprovements" changed to "Improvements"
  • p. 67 (note) "right hand" changed to "left hand"
  • p. 74 "equaminity" changed to "equanimity"
  • p. 92 "countremen" changed to "countrymen"
  • (plate) "Plate 12" changed to "Plate 12."
  • (plate) "LESSER WEEVER" changed to "LESSER WEEVER."
  • p. 138 "assailent" changed to "assailant"
  • p. 145 (note) "Introd. to Conchology" changed to "Introd. to Conchology"
  • (plate) "ANGLED-CRAB" changed to "ANGLED-CRAB."
  • p. 230 "Plymouth" changed to "Plymouth."
  • (plate) "PURPLE-HERMIT CRAB." changed to "PURPLE HERMIT-CRAB."
  • p. 300 (note) "right hand" changed to "left hand"
  • p. 300 (note) "XXXIV" changed to "XXXIV."
  • p. 310 (note) "XXXV" changed to "XXXV."

The following are used inconsistently in the text:

  • Beroë, Beröe and Beroe
  • Brittlestar and Brittle-star
  • Corkwing and Cork-wing
  • débris and debris
  • footstalk and foot-stalk
  • honeycombed and honey-combed
  • Keyhole and Key-hole
  • Longworm and Long-worm
  • zigzag and zig-zag