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Excerpt from Sea-Side Studies at Ilfracombe, Tenby, the Scilly Isles, and Jersey
There are two aspects in which Natural History may be regarded - as an amusement, and as a science the one being simply delight in natural objects, the other a philos0phic inquiry into the complex facts of Life. As this latter was the motive which prompted my visits to the coast, it has naturally assumed a promi nent place in these pages and although, throughout, a style of popular exposition is adopted, which aims at being intelligible to all cultivated readers, I have also had a special audience in view, to whom must be sub mitted the appreciation of the new facts and new physiological interpretations herein advanced. Every competent person will see that these novelties are the result of hard work and continuous application and I have been careful to indicate the amount and kind of evidence - Observation, Dissection, or Experiment on which they rest so that the source of error, wher ever there is error, may be detected.
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