232 EDWARD DESCRIBED BY MR. SMITH. CHAP. xn. 



Edward the 39th volume of the 'Naturalist's Library/ 

 which contains an account, by Dr. Hamilton of 

 Edinburgh, of the Squalida, or family of sharks, 

 and in which there is a coloured engraving of this 

 particular shark. In reply, Mr. Edward observes 

 ' I have now no doubt whatever that the animal dis- 

 covered and examined by me was the Spinous Shark.'" 



In another article, Mr. Smith described Edward 

 in the following terms : "I have oftener than 

 once made mention in the Zoologist of Mr. Thomas 

 Edward, shoemaker in Banff, who is a zealous 

 admirer of Nature and an excellent preserver of 

 animals. Occasionally he tears himself, as it 

 were, from the employment to which necessity 

 compels him, and slakes his thirst for the con- 

 templation of zoological scenes and objects by a 

 solitary ramble amid the mountains and hills 

 which so greatly abound in the upper portion of the 

 shires of Aberdeen and Banff. Of some of his ad- 

 ventures during a ramble of this description, he has 

 sent me an account. This I consider so interesting, 

 that I have rewritten it, and now submit it for inser- 

 tion in the Zoologist. The facts, the ideas, and the 

 reflections, are all his own, and in many parts 

 I have retained his own impressions. Upon the 

 accuracy and the minuteness of his observations, and 

 upon his veracity of character, the utmost reliance 

 may at all times be placed." 



The paper that follows consists of the description 



