The Common Shark (_Carcharias vulgaris_) 161 The Dog‐fish (_Acanthias vulgaris_) 164 The Globe‐fish (_Tetrodon_) and Sun‐fish 164 (_Orthagoriscus mola_) The Pipe‐fish (_Syngnathus acus_) 165 The Flying‐fish (_Exocœtus exiliens_) 165 The Salmon (_Salmo salar_) 168 The Herring (_Clupea harengus_) 169 Herring Fishing 172 The Pilchard (_Clupea pilchardus_) 173 The Cod (_Morrhua vulgaris_) 176 The Mackerel (_Scomber scombrus_) 176 Fishing for Tunny off the Coast of Provence 177 Fishing for Sword‐fish 180 The Northern Whale (_Balina mysticetus_) 181 Cutting up the Whale 184 The Great Sea‐serpent when first seen from H.M.S. _To face page_ 186 _Dædalus_ Head of Sea Serpent 189 On the Sea‐shore: Calm and Storm 192 Sea Anemones 196 Delesseria 200 Laminaria 200 Bladder Wrack (_Fucus vesiculosus_) 201 Ulva 201 Pholades in a Block of Gneiss 204 Spinous Cockle (_Cardium edule_) 204 The Weaver‐fish (_Trachinus communis_) 205 The Devil’s Frying Pan, Coast of Cornwall. _To face page_ 207 The Lizard Light 208 The Loggan Stone 208 The Botallack Mine, Cornwall 209 Looe 212 View on the Cornish Coast 217 Rocket Line Thrown to a Wreck near Penzance 220 Life‐boat Going to a Wreck on Doom Bar, Padstow 221 Wreck of a Steamship near Lizard Point 224 The _König Wilhelm_ entering Portsmouth Harbour after _To face page_ 239 the Collision Southampton 225 H.M.S. _Eurydice_ on her Beam‐ends just after the 228 Squall Brighton 232