Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. Fourth Edition

EDWARD’S labours were now drawing to a close. He had fought the fight of science inch by inch, until he could fight no more. He had also fought the fight of honest poverty—a gre...

SHORTLY after Edward’s return from Aberdeen, his old and much esteemed friend, the Rev. James Smith, of the Manse of Monquhitter, situated about ten miles south-east of Banff, l...

EDWARD was between four and five years old when he went to school. He was sent there principally that he might be kept out of harm’s way. He did not go willingly; for he was of...

BANFF was a comparatively small and remote town; whereas Aberdeen was the centre of northern intellect and business. At Banff, comparatively few persons knew much about natural...

AT the same time that Edward was occupied in searching out new species of Crustaceans for Mr. Spence Bate and Mr. Norman, he was also collecting marine objects for other natural...

A GREAT misfortune befell Edward in 1854: his friend the Rev. Mr. Smith died. He was a man whose richly cultivated mind and warm heart endeared him to all with whom he came in c...

ALTHOUGH it is comparatively easy to observe the habits of animals by day, it is much more difficult to do so at night. Edward, as we have already said, was compelled by circums...

THE reader will find this chapter, as well as the next, rather uninteresting. But it is necessary that the chapters should be written, in order to show the contributions which E...

EDWARD had left Banff on the 31st of July 1846, full of hope; after six weeks he returned to it, full of despair. He had gone to Aberdeen with his collection, accompanied by his...

BANFF was the central point of Edward’s operations. Banff is a pleasant country town, situated on the southern shore of the Moray Firth. It lies on a gentle slope inclining towa...

EDWARD had now been working for about ten years along the sea-shore—collecting Crustacea, Molluscs, Fish, and marine objects. He had won his honours, and lost his health. His me...

THE Reverend Mr. Smith must have felt surprised at the graphic manner in which Edward described the birds of the district. The truth is, that Edward, though he had acquired his...

THOMAS EDWARD was born at Gosport, Portsmouth, on Christmas day, 1814. His father, John Edward, was a private in the Fifeshire Militia. Shortly after his enlistment at Cupar, he...

EDWARD had for some time been extending his investigations to the tenants of the deep. His wanderings had for the most part been along-shore in search of sea-birds. But, as earl...

EDWARD was about twenty years old when he left Aberdeen, and went to Banff to work at his trade. He found a master there willing to employ him. Shoemaking had not improved. Men...

AT last Edward determined to run away from home, and from Charlie Begg’s cruelty, and to visit his wonderful uncle at the Kettle. The village is situated nearly in the centre of...

THE boy was learning idle habits. He refused to go back to the Lancaster school. Indeed, from the cruel treatment he had received there, his parents did not ask him to return. H...

INSTEAD of going directly back to his work, Edward went down to the harbour to ascertain whether any of the captains would accept of his services as a sailor. He went from ship...

Edward’s labours drawing to a close—Still craves after Nature—His wife accompanies him to Huntly—Traps at Tarlair—Another discovery to announce—Nilsson’s Goby—His numerous disco...

Death of the Rev. Mr. Smith—Mr. Smith’s helpfulness—Observation of the Partridge—The Rev. Alexander Boyd—Loch of Strathbeg—The Waterfowl at Strathbeg—Swans—Geese—Ducks—Winter an...

His employment—Finds time to follow his bent—His Caterpillars among the workmen—His landlady—Marries a Huntly lass—Settled for life—Self-education in Natural History—Stuffs bird...

Edward brings home Zoophytes to observe—The Star-fish—The Brittle Stars—A six legged Starfish—Rosy-feather Star—The great Sea-cucumber—Dead Man’s Paps—The Ascidians—Want of obse...

Aberdeen his city of expectations—Dramatic bird-stuffing—Collection taken to Aberdeen in six carriers’ carts—Exhibited in Union Street—The handbills—Appeal to the people—The exp...

Re-enters his desolate dwelling—Return of his family—Begins again—Redoubles his zeal—His paraphernalia—Ramble in the Balloch Hills—A successful search—A furious storm comes on—C...

Mr. Bate of Plymouth—His work on Crustacea—_Praniza Edwardii_—The Anceus—Edward’s letter to Mr. Bate—Entomostraca—Parasites from short Sun-fish—Present of a Microscope—A possibl...

Edward goes to school—Plays the Truant—The fishwives—Bell Hill—Grannie’s Plunge—A Kae taken to school—Edward’s expulsion—Sent to his second school—The Horse-leeches—Edward expel...

Mr. Smith’s articles published in the _Zoologist_—Edward’s power of observation described—The beautiful Heron—Cries of the Birds at Ness Bogie—The motherly Wild Duck—Burial of t...

The Rev. Mr. Smith—The Bridled Guillemot—Grammar—Scraps from the newspapers—The Death’s-head Moth—Butterflies and locusts—_Locusta migratoria_—Saw-flies—The Spider—Notes in Natu...

Marine objects on the shores of Banffshire—Edward’s sea-traps—Captures a rare fish, Bloch’s Gurnard—The incoming wave—Big fish the best dredgers—Helped by the fishermen—Helped b...

Sets out for the Kettle—His provisions—His money—Tries to sell his knife—Ruins of Dunnottar Castle—Bervie—Encounter with tramps—Montrose—Sells his knife—Sleeps in a haycock—Arbr...

Edward’s illness—Studies galvanism—Curator of Banff Museum—Practises Photography—Antiquities of Banff—The old Town Cross—The Drinking Fountain—The Kjökken Mödding at Boyndie—Ear...

Situation of Banff—Macduff—Cliffs of Banffshire—Gamrie—The fishing-boats—Gardenstown—The fishermen—Crovie—Hell’s Lum—Troup Head—Pennan—The dens of North Aberdeenshire—Aberdour—C...

Edward born at Gosport, Portsmouth—The Fifeshire Militia—Return to Cupar—Residence at Kettle—Settles at Aberdeen—The Green—How Edward became a Naturalist—The sow Bet—Stolen by G...

Animals wandering at night—Their noises and cries—The Roe-deer and hare—The Rabbit—A Rabbit fight—The Fox—The Badger—The Field Mice—The Weasel—Attack by a Weasel—Pertinacious Ra...

Offers himself as a sailor—Resumes shoemaking—Wild Botanical Garden—Tanners’ pits for puddocks—The picture shops—The _Penny Magazine_—Castlegate on Fridays—Gunmakers’ windows—Tr...

Goes to work—A Tobacco-spinner—Factory at Grandholm—The Banks and Braes of the Don—The Brig o’ Balgownie—Spires of St. Machar—Working at the factory—The Sedge-warbler—The Kingfi...