CONTENTS. xvii 



CHAPTER XX. 



DICK COMPELLED TO SELL HIS FOSSILS. 



The ' ' Prince Consort " shipwrecked Dick's flour lost Unable ta 

 pay the loss Appeals to his sister Obtains 20 from her Pre- 

 pares to sell his fossils Mr. John Miller, F.G.S. Correspondence 

 with him Writes to Sir Roderick Murchison Sells his fossils to 

 Mr. Miller Pays his bill for the lost flour His business again 

 falls off Nature comes to his relief His lonely walks His 

 favourite resorts The Daisy The Bulrush and Lapland Reed 

 Troubled with rheumatism Native roses Professor Babington 

 Professor Owen Mr. Notcutt Mr. Pringle, Farmer 's Gazette "0 

 waft me o'er the deep blue sea" Dick a sleepless man St. Peter's 

 burying-ground A believer in the unseen world . Pages 329-347 



CHAPTER XXI. 



RECOMMENCES A COLLECTION OP FOSSILS. 



Again searches for fossil fish His wondrous astonishment The dead 

 fish Platform of death View of Caithness and Orkney Death a 

 necessity Interview with a quarryman Hugh Miller's views 

 referred to The Old Red conglomerate Searchiugs among the 

 rocks A large fossil found Searches for an entire fossil fish Hia 

 constant diggings Mr. Salter's lecture Digs in hard frost Order 

 of succession Bed of rolled pebbles on Morven top Stony clays 

 on Thurso river Metamorphic action Liquid silica Flint casts 

 The chalk formation Dick's letters . . Pages 348-37'J 



CHAPTER XXII. 



DICK'S FRIENDS FOSSILISING AND MOSS-HUNTING. 



How the Thurso people regarded Dick His antediluvian garments 

 His appearance His inner thinkings The little we really know 

 Dignity and purity of Dick's character Dr. Shearer's statement as 

 to his thoroughness Peach and Dick Careful and abstemious 

 " No pampering " Correspondence with his sister Ferns in De- 

 cember, Peri Dick nearly shot Death of his sister A new friend 

 His meeting with Dick His frequent interviews Dick's museum 

 described His herbarium Walls of his bakehouse His interest 



