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Tag Archives: Gosse
‘Signor tuberculato’, PH Gosse and Charles Kingsley
Cockle shells are piled like snow-drifts amongst the trees at the top of the bay; they form banks and ridges along the shore. Balcary Bay, its entrance partly plugged by Heston Island, looks to be a tranquil and sheltered haven, … Continue reading
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Tagged Allonby Bay, Balcary Bay, Charles Kingsley, cockles, Gosse, mussels, Seaside Pleasures, shells
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Hunting for ‘guggies’, and finding ‘canoes’, on the Galloway shore
We went to the Scottish side of the Solway Firth to hunt for a boring mollusc. Or, rather more accurately, for the empty shells of a marine snail, Natica monilifera, known variously as the Necklace Shell, the beaded Nerite, or … Continue reading
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Tagged dog-whelks, Gosse, Luce Bay, Natica, shells, the Mull of Galloway, tideline
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Tyrean Purple dye, Philip Henry Gosse, and the Bell Rock lighthouse
Puzzling about the link to Solway Shore-walker? It is the dog-whelk Nucella lapillus, the ‘boring mollusc’ of an earlier blog-post. On page 182 of Natural History: The Mollusca, published in 1854, Philip Henry Gosse writes: ‘From Mr Stevenson’s interesting account … Continue reading
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Tagged dog-whelks, Gosse, lighthouse, Seaside Pleasures, Tyrean Purple dye
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Boring molluscs and bevelled edges
Dog-whelks, Nucella lapillus, were clustered on the mid-shore rocks in late April; singles, twos and threes, they were apparently uninterested in the barnacles beneath their feet, but were there to socialise or, more specifically, to meet partners of the opposite … Continue reading
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Tagged dog-whelks, Gosse, mussels, Natica, shells, shore-walks, tideline
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