Along the Florida Reef - Softcover
PREFACE. THE adventures and incidents of the following story do not belong to the realm of fiction. They are the actual compellings in the daily life of several boys, one of whom, the author, resided for five or six years upon a small key of the great coral-reef that stretches away into the Gulf of Mexico from the Florida Peninsula A portion of nearly every day was spent in floating over the coral gardens, for which the locality is famous, or in hunting or fishing for the strange animals which there found a home. The excursions were made, as described, under the guidance of a naturlist who, while a surgeon in the army and stationed at the lost, was studying the corals and other animals of the reef, and who relied a little upon the young natralists and divere to collect the specimens in which he was interested, and which, at the request of Professors Agassiz and Baird, ultimately found their way into the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Cornparatire Zoology at Cambridge, and other institutions of science throughout the country. The recollections of these days-the swimming trips along coral banks, exciting chases after turtle and shark, visits to the haunts of the sea-gull, dives to the home of the queen-conch in the deep lagoon-are still fresh in the authors memory, and it is hoped that some of the enthusiasm of the bog naturalists of the reef, in outdoor studies, may be imparted to the young readers of this volume...
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- PublisherGregg Pr
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1443752363
- ISBN 13 9781443752367
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages284
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