. xviii. EDWARD'S DISCOVERIES. 



than his shoemaker's knife and hammer, and a saw ; 

 and he papered, painted, and glazed them all himself. 



As to the number of different species that he has 

 accumulated during thirty years of incessant toil, it 

 is of course impossible to form an estimate, as he 

 never kept a log-book ; but some idea of his perse- 

 vering labours may be formed from the list of Banff- 

 shire Fauna annexed to this volume. 



Many of his discoveries have already become facts 

 in history, but a large proportion of them can never 

 be known. His specimens were sent to others to be 

 named, but many of them were never afterwards 

 heard of. This was particularly the case with his 

 shrimps, insects, zoophytes, corals, sponges, sea-slugs, 

 worms, tunicata or leathern-bag molluscs, fossils, 

 and plants. " Had any one," he says, " taken pity 

 on me in time (as has sometimes been done with 

 others), and raised me from the dirt, I might have 

 been able to name my own specimens, and thereby 

 made my own discoveries known myself." 



Many of Edward's friends told him that he should 

 have extended his inquiries into Aberdeenshire and the 

 northern counties ; and that he should have explored 

 the coasts of the Moray Firth in all directions. 

 Others told him that he should have written and 

 published much more than he did, or was ever able 

 to do ; and that he should have given many more 

 facts to the public. The only reply that he gave to 

 such advisers was, that he had neither the opportunity 



