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where she lived, and sent per carrier the cods’ stomachs twice a 
week. 
Edward now had a large family, consisting of his wife and 
eleven children, and as science had not done, and appeared un- 
likely to do, anything for him, he determined to return to his 
cobbler’s stool. 
Time will not allow of my touching on numerous other in- 
cidents connected with this great naturalist’s life that I should 
very much liked to have done, but must sum up my remarks by 
saying, Edward was a poor, sober, industrious, determined, and 
enthusiastic lover of nature. The love of nature was so en- 
grounded into his soul that he was compelled to study her ways 
at all costs. Like many great men that have lived, he did not 
receive a fair share of praise or reward for the immense amount 
of work that he did—I fear, chiefly because he was a poor man ; 
and, secondly, for the reason that he lacked a sound education, 
which prevented him from corresponding freely with those in a 
higher position in life; who, had they known of this indefatigable 
worker, might have pecuniarily assisted him; or it may have 
been that Scotch people are very reticent. They rarely speak of 
love or affection; it is all understood. It is said that a Scotch- 
man will never tell his wife that he loves her until he is dying ; 
therefore it may be that the Scotchman would not tell Edward 
that he loved and admired his life’s work until he died. 
I regret to find Edward did not think that his labours had 
been properly recognized, and this vexed him. I entirely agree 
and sympathize with him. 
In conclusion, I will give his few last touching remarks from 
Smiles’s ‘ Life of Edward.’ He says:—‘‘I had often been 
promised aid in the shape of books, but no such aid ever came. 
All my honours have come from a distance. I have kept the 
museum of the Banff Institution for about twenty-one years for 
I may say almost nothing (it was, I think, £2 a year), and, 
‘though the Linnean Society thought me worthy of being elected 
an Associate, the people here did not think me worthy of being ~ 
an honorary member of their Society ; so finally (1875) I betook 
myself to my old and time-honoured friend—a friend of fifty 
years’ standing, who has never yet forsaken me, or refused help 
to my body when weary, nor rest to my limbs when tired—my: 
well-worn cobbler’s stool.” 
Not only was Edward’s life a most interesting one, showing 
his ardent love for Natural History, and his great power of 
determination and perseverance ; but he also added materially 
to our knowledge of the British sessile-eyed crustaceans. He 
collected over one hundred and fifty species in the Moray Firth, 
twenty of these being new species; and it is only necessary for 
those interested to read Bate and Westwood’s ‘ History of the 
