xvi CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



EGBERT DICK AND CHARLES PEACH. 



Peach finds a new fossil Dick's reply The monk of Cambray reading 

 backwards Views of Geology Ill-will to geologists Mr. Peach's 

 paper at Liverpool Fossil wood Dick's botanical collection 

 Mr. W. L. Notcutt Dick's correspondents His Sunday walks 

 Dr. Macleod " Ta tail pe brak "Encounter with a Highlander- 

 Sir Roderick Murchison Calls on Robert Dick Letter from Sir 

 Roderick Second visit to Dick Moulds a map of Caithness in 

 flour Sir Roderick's letter Voyage of Murchison and Peach to the 

 Shetland Islands Sir Roderick's speech at Leeds " Hammers an' 

 chisels an' a' "Amygdaloid Dick's rhymes Another letter from 

 Sir Roderick Another rhyme . . . Pages 259-281 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



LION-HUNTERS FERNS AND MOSSES. 



rai hurso people and Dick Opinions about his rhymes Lion-hunters 

 Annie Mackay The Duke of Argyll Sir George Sinclair Thomas 

 Carlyle and Baroness Burdett Coutts Lady Sinclair "Welcome 

 Charlie" Medical students Dr. Shearer Dr. Meiklejohn Dr. 

 Brown The Juncus squarrosiis Study of mosses Club mosses 

 Finds the Osmil/nda regalis Ferns on Dunnet Head Cornish 

 heaths Studies from Nature Fossil wood Illness Hart's-tongue 

 fern Section of Caithness strata Plants the Royal Fern over 

 Caithness Darwin's Journal The littleness of things Dr. 

 Shearer's question Correspondence with Dr. Meiklejohn Influence 

 of climate on roses ..... Pages 282-311 



CHAPTER XIX. 



ROBERT DICK IN ADVERSITY. 



Dick's attention to business Is oppressed by competition Loses his 

 money Loses his health Thinks of removing from Thurso More 

 bakers Bakers and whisky dealers John Barleycorn No coddling 

 and nursing Improvement of Thurso Annie Mackay's conversa- 

 tion, Dick's housekeeper Dick's honesty His cheerfulness- 

 Keeps moving Pores over dried mosses Jacob's son Eyesight 

 becomes defective His struggles to live SirWyville Thomson His 

 description of Dick Dick resumes his researches among the fossils 

 His great labour Finds an extraordinary fossil . Pages 312-328 



