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shy and modest : perhaps he was too modest. There 

 are cases in which shyness is almost a misfortune. A 

 man may know much ; but, because of his shyness, he 

 declines to communicate his information to others. 

 He hides his secret, and nobody is the wiser for his 

 knowledge. He is too bashful. He avoids those who 

 might be friendly to him, and who might help him. 

 Edward often stood in his own light in this way. 



Mr. Smith, however, persevered. He obtained 

 from Edward some notes of his observations, and 

 after correcting them, he offered to send them to the 

 Zoologist, and publish them under his own name. *' I 

 have no doubt," he said, " that the articles would be 

 acceptable to the editor ; but, if you do not approve 

 of this plan, I hope you will not for a moment allow 

 me to interfere with you. At all events, I trust that 

 you will have no objection to let the information be 

 known to a much wider circle of readers, and especi- 

 ally of zoologists, than are likely to consult the pages 

 of the Banffshire Journal!' 



Edward at last gave his consent ; and in the 

 Zoologist for 1850,* Mr. Smith inserted a notice of 

 the Sanderlings which had been shot by Edward on 

 the sands of Boyndie. In the following year Mr. 

 Smith inserted, in the same magazine, a notice of the 

 spinous shark which Edward had seen under Gamrie 

 Head.f "In order," says Mr. Smith, "to determine 

 whether it was the spinous shark or not, I sent Mr. 



* Zoologist, 1850 : 2915. t Zoologist, 1851 : 3<?t7 



