388 CONTINUES HIS WALKS. CHAP, xxu 



send you a copy of my paper when it is printed, which 

 will probably be some time this year. 



" The valves of the Leda I got from you are pro- 

 nounced by Mr. Gwynn Jeffreys to be Leda buccata of 

 Steenstrup, which he seems to consider a variety of Leda 

 parmula" 



Here was a large stroke of work cut out for Robert 

 Dick. But he was too poor, too rheumatic, too much 

 overborne by troubles, to undertake it. 



Nevertheless he continued his walks to within a 

 reasonable distance of Thurso. He preferred walking 

 along the shore. Sandside Bay was one of his favourite 

 resorts. There he found old fishes in store, but none of 

 them were of the best kind. In passing thither, he 

 crossed the Forss Water by the bridge; and in the 

 lower grounds he found a specimen of the Hierochloe 

 borealis growing. He sought for it again, but he never 

 found another. Besides, there were plenty along the 

 Thurso banks, quite enough to satisfy his numerous 

 correspondents. Forss Water was one of his favourite 

 spots. It rises in Shurery Loch, and comes tumbling 

 down from rock to rock until it reaches the sea. The 

 last fall is at Forss Mill, near where he found the speci- 

 men of the Holy Grass. 



Robert Dick continued his correspondence with 

 Charles Peach to the end of his life.* The two had a 



* In 1859 the Geological Society of London unanimously granted 

 the WolUston Medal to Mr. Charles Darwin, F.R.S. ; but a balance 

 remained, which was awarded to Mr. Charles Peach, for his discoveries 

 in Geology. The president, Professor .1. Phillips, on his handing the 



