390 



INDEX. 



Crows, 126; carrion and hooded, 271. 

 Crovie, fishing village of, 132. 

 Crustacea, Edward's discoveries of, 

 297-323. 



DEATH'S-HKAD MOTH, 205. 

 Den, the, Aberdeen, 15. 

 Denburn, Aberdeen, 2,8. 

 Dens on Buchan coast, 133. 

 Deveron, river, at Banff, 129. 

 Dotterel, anecdote of the Tling, 260. 

 Drinking fountain, Banff, 354. 

 Duck, the dead wild, 235. 

 Ducks at Strathbeg, 259. 

 Dunnottar Castle, 63. 



EAGLE, the, 121. 



Edward, Thomas, born at Gosport, 

 1; at Aberdeen, 3; with the 

 pigs at Kettle, 5 ; his disappear- 

 ance, 5 ; rats and beasties, 8 ; 

 physical punishment, 9 ; an in- 

 corrigible boy, 11 ; his illness, 

 14 ; the wasps' " byke," 17 ; 

 goes to school, 21 ; his grannie, 

 22 ; the jackdaw at school, 25 ; 

 the scholar expelled, 27 ; horse- 

 leeches at school, 28 ; expelled 

 again, 29 ; sent to another school, 

 30 ; the sparrows at school, 32 ; 

 the Maggy Monny Feet, 35 ; 

 expelled again, 37 ; a night out 

 of doors, 38 ; catches an adder, 

 43 ; a tobacco-spinner, 47 ; a 

 factory worker at Grandholm, 50; 

 apprenticed to a shoemaker, 54 ; 

 his ill-treatment, 56 ; tries to be 

 a sailor, 59; journey to Kettle, 

 61 ; shoemaking again, 76 ; 

 starts a Wild Botanical Garden, 

 76 ; a stowaway, 81 ; private in 

 Aberdeenshire militia, 82 ; the 

 Fritillery butterfly, 83; settles 

 at Banff, 87 ; works at shoe- 

 making and natural history, 87 ; 

 marries, 88 ; his love of Nature, 

 92 ; his gun, 93 ; adventures at 

 night, 95-128 ; fight with a pole- 

 cat, 118 ; forms a collection of 

 natural history, 94, 129 ; districts 



visited, 138 ; two geese tracked, 

 139 ; his traps, 145 ; prepares a 

 catalogue, 146 ; a terrible mis- 

 fortune, 147 ; exhibits his collec- 

 tion at Banff, 149 ; at Aberdeen, 

 153 ; deplorable results, 172 ; 

 returns to Banff, 181 ; recom- 

 mences his collection, 183 ; 

 adventure at Balloch hills, 186 ; 

 his certificate, 194; falls over 

 the rocks at Tarlair, 198 ; col- 

 lection again sold, 202 ; learns 

 grammar, 204, 230; adventures 

 after rare birds, 214 ; scrambles 

 down Gamrie cliff, 218 ; anec- 

 dotes of sea-birds, 237-248 ; birds 

 at Strathbeg, 255-62 ; sells his 

 third collection, 278 ; search for 

 crustaceans, 279 ; Edward's dis- 

 coveries, 284-291; his correspond- 

 ents, 292 ; Praniza JSdwardii, 

 299 ; proposed appointment a 

 failure, 304 ; the nest-building 

 crustacean, 312 ; his* many dis- 

 coveries, 320-323; star-fishes, 325; 

 molluscs, 330 ; new fishes, 333, 

 336 ; the midges, 336-343 ; dis- 

 covers Couchia Edwardii, 344 ; 

 elected Associate of the Linnean 

 Society, 348 ; studies galvanism, 

 351 ; photography, 352 ; kitchen 

 middens, 355 ; the bone or 

 "been," 365-372; summary of 

 Edward's life, 373-388. 



Edward, Mrs, 88, 147, 193, 374, 

 380, 385. 



Egyptian goose at Strathbeg, 257. 



FACTORY working, 50. 



Falcon, the Peregrine, 223- 



Field mice, 110. 



Fifeshire militia, 1. 



Finns, the old, 357. 



Fishermen, Edward helped by the, 



283-289. 

 Fishes, new, discovered in Moray 



Firth, 331-346, 376. 

 Fishwives, Aberdeen, 22, 68. 

 Fox, the, 109 ; at Gamrie Head, 



219. 



