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graphy; and more than a hundred of Dick's letters 

 were in the possession of the biographer. Dick had 

 given all his best fossils to Miller. " He robbed him- 

 self," said Hugh Miller, "to do me service." Dick 

 worked night and day to enable him to illustrate his 

 works by new specimens. One would have thought 

 that these services were worthy of some mention in 

 Hugh Miller's biography. But not a word is said there 

 ts to Hugh's greatest helper. 



