The Sea Shore, C.M. Yonge
Published as part of the Collins New Naturalist Series 1949, The Sea Shore details the wide variety of life found in this narrow strip between land and sea — its an area that Yonge recognises as being disproportionately fascinating to explore due to a unique combination of the rich diversity of inhabitants which have adapted for life on land and at sea, and its accessibility to humans. At the time of publication, C.M. Yonge occupied the Regius Chair of Zoology at the University of Glasgow with interests “entirely marine”.
(We’re forever grateful to this book, and particularly this page, for introducing us to Sarah Hoare’s Poems on Conchology and Botany.)
C.M. Yonge began his research career at the marine biological laboratory at Plymouth and worked at marine stations all over the world and was president of the Association which conducted the marine biological laboratory at Millport.
“Like all life, that of the shore has beauty and, as always that beauty is greatest in its natural setting ... There are few more beautiful sights than a rock pool or the under-side of an overhanging boulder covered with encrusting growths of coloured sponges and compound sea-squirts.”
