Transcribed from the 1890 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org
[Picture: Book cover]
[Picture: Plate 1: Actinia Mesembryanthemum]
GLAUCUS
OR
THE WONDERS OF THE SHORE
* * * * *
BY
CHARLES KINGSLEY
* * * * *
_WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS_
* * * * *
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1890
_The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved_
* * * * *
RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON AND BUNGAY.
_First Edition_ (Fcap. 8vo), May 1855. _Second Edition_, August 1855.
_Third Edition_, 1856. _Fourth Edition_ (with Coloured Illustrations),
1859. _Fifth Edition_ (Crown 8vo), 1873. _Reprinted_ 1878, 1879, 1881,
1884, 1887, 1890.
Dedication.
MY DEAR MISS GRENFELL,
I CANNOT forego the pleasure of dedicating this little book to you;
excepting of course the opening exhortation (needless enough in your
case) to those who have not yet discovered the value of Natural History.
Accept it as a memorial of pleasant hours spent by us already, and as an
earnest, I trust, of pleasant hours to be spent hereafter (perhaps, too,
beyond this life in the nobler world to come), in examining together the
works of our Father in heaven.
Your grateful and faithful brother-in-law,