XVI* CONTENTS. 



Congress : John visits William Bevericlge ; their previous intercourse ; 

 they examine the museum ; their evenings at home : John's obliviousness 

 of "the genteel." 

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CHAPTER XXXIII. 

 JOHN'S VISITS TO ABERDEEN FRIENDSHIB AND BOTANY. 



Meets James Taylor; James begins study with Charles Black; he goes to 

 college and studies medicine ; sails to the Arctic regions and explores 

 their natural history and botany ; later studies and work ; settles at 

 Clashfarquhar ; John's visits to him ; they botanise together ; John begins 

 the more difficult sections of the subject ; Taylor's impressions of him ; 

 visits John at Droughsburn with Dr. Sutherland ; John finds the Lime- 

 stone Polypody; visits Clashfarquhar; his last visit there; botanises at 

 the cliffs : John's connection with Professor Dickie. 



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'CHAPTER XXXIV. 



THE AUTHOR'S FIRST VISIT TO DROUGHSBURN. 



I visit John in his eighty-third year with friends ; introduced ; John's aspect and 

 shyness ; his weaving then, and independence in it ; his general herbarium 

 inspected ; his finer collections examined ; his treasured Cryptogamic 

 book ; his conquest of the science in his old age : I return to the cottage 

 alone ; his interesting and varied conversation ; we climb the hill together ; 

 John on the objects seen there ; the view ; entertainment in the cottage ; 

 parting with him. 



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CHAPTER XXXV. 



FAME, PAUPERISM AND WEAKNESS. 



Account of this visit in " Good Words " ; its pleasant results in assistance and 

 appreciation; "they've found you out at last!"; "Sal, lad, it pays!" 

 John's indignation at silly pride ; Charles writes him in congratulation : 

 John becomes unable to make ends meet ; books his one luxury ; he 

 cannot part with them ; tells no one ; applies for work at a saw-mill in 

 vain; takes to bed sick with heartache; renewed struggle; begs a 

 pauper's portion ; boarded in the cottage : growing weakness ; faints on 

 way to church ; his last visit there ; " like an aul' tumbledoon feal dike " ; 

 visits James Black and William Beveridge for last time ; account of my 

 visit appears in " Leaders of Men." 



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