CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



John Williamson's Narrative Maternal Grandparents Craw- 

 ford Laboratory Childhood Dame Schools Mr. Potter's 

 School Lebberston Mrs. Johnson William Smith 

 Thomas Hinderwell Phillips' "Geology of the Yorkshire 

 Coast " Smith's Personality Thornton School Journey 

 to France Life at Bourbourg .... pp. 1-23 



CHAPTER II 



Visit to London Murchison Theatres Return Home 

 Weddell's Surgery Surgery Work Carrying Physic 

 Domestic Life Surgery Cleaning Doctors' Bills Distribu- 

 tion of Country Bills System of Apprenticeship Shooting 

 and Plant Hunting Awakening Cords Polytrichum on 

 Oliver's Mount Memoir on Rare Birds Fossil Flora 

 Drawing on the Kitchen Table Weddell's Botanical Lec- 

 tures Staith's Excursion Memoir to Geological Society 

 Fate of this Memoir Messrs. Tate and Blake's Misrepre- 

 sentation Insect Hunting Nebria Livida Second Dis- 

 covery of Nebria Livida Pomerine Skua . pp. 24-42 



