320 MR. BATES EULOGIUMS. CHAP. xv. 



to send his Sponges to Mr. Bowerbank, and his 

 Ascidians to Mr. Alder of Newcastle, who were en- 

 gaged in working up these subjects. The investi- 

 gators did not know for none of them ever saw 

 him that Edward had the greatest difficulty in 

 earning money enough to maintain his large family. 

 Sometimes, in fact, he was on the brink of starvation. 

 And yet he worked for his naturalist friends as will- 

 ingly and as hardly, perhaps more hardly, than if he 

 had been a gentleman of independent fortune. 



When the History of the Sessile-eyed Crustacea 

 came out, the assistance which had been rendered by 

 Edward to Mr. Bate was fully and generously ac- 

 knowledged. Let any one look over the book, and he 

 will find of how much service Edward was to Mr. 

 Bate while he was preparing the work for publica- 

 tion. Mr. Bate frequently speaks of Edward as " our 

 valued, able, and close observer." In addition to the 

 references to Edward already mentioned, we may 

 subjoin the following. In speaking of the Lysianassa 

 longicornus, Mr. Bate says that it "has been for- 

 warded to him by that obliging and indefatigable 

 naturalist, Mr. Edward of Banff ;" that his only spe- 

 cimen of Anonyx dbesus has been sent to him by Mr. 

 Edward ; that the Phoxus Holbelli has been sent to 

 him from Banff " by that indefatigable lover of nature, 

 Mr. Edward ;" that the species of Darwinia compressa 

 was first taken by Mr. Edward at the entrance to the 

 Moray Firth ; that the first species of the Calliope 



