INDEX, 



AJBBCROMBY family, 7. 



Acharynie, 198, 200. 



Aikman, Mr., Tullibody, 17, 40, 48, 



193. 



Agriculture in Caithness, 33. 

 Allman, Professor, 266. 

 Alva, 2. 

 Al-wick, 81. 

 Amygdaloid, 277. 

 Argyll, Duke of, 285. 

 Asterolepis, 207, 215, 224, 272, 



289, 362, 421. 

 Atlantic at Thurso, 24. 



BABINGTON, Professor, 266, 341. 



Bakehouse, Dick's, 272, 323, 381. 



Baker, life of a, 19 ; bakers in 

 Thurso, 315. 



Balfour, Professor, 74, 266, 291, 294. 



Baltic rush, 255, 340. 



Banniskirk, 138. 



Barrogill Castle, 28, 211. 



Bencheilt, 37, 193, 229. 



Bencleuch, Ochil Hills, 3. 



Biscuits, Dick's, 49, 396. 



Bishop's Palace, Thurso, 111, 121. 



Botany, Dick's first acquaintance 

 with, 19 ; study of, 50 ; his col- 

 lection, 254, 264, 426. 



Boulder clay, formation of, 133, 158; 

 at Freswick, 169, 184 ; at Thurso, 

 159 ; at Dunbeath, 192. 



Boulders, 180, 190, 400. 



Brims, geology at, 125. 



British Association, 245, 263. 



Brough, 83, 95, 174. 



Brown, Dr., 288, 290. 



Buckland, Dr., 99, 106, 249. 



Busby's oook, 99. 



CAITHNESS, description of, 26. 

 Cambuskenneth, 5. 

 Carlyle, Mr. T., 286, 401. 

 Castles, old, in Caithness, 31, 44, 201. 

 Castle Campbell, 1. 

 Castlehill, 29, 180. 

 Castletown, 87, 180. 

 Chambers, Dr. R., 246, 367. 

 Character of Dick, 373, 427. 

 Clett, Holborn Head, 43, 124. 

 Cley, Norfolk, 241, 243. 

 Coast scenery of Caithness, 30. 

 Coccosteus, 100, 107, 127, 139/325, 



359. 



Colenso, Bishop, 400. 

 Competition in Thurso, 153, 313. 

 Conybeare on fossils in Caithness 



and Cornwall, 98, 245. 

 Cornish geology, 245, 250. 

 Correspondence with Hugh Miller, 



100-159. 



Coutts, Baroness Burdott, 286. 

 Creation, one, 305. 



DAM'S BURN, 10. 



Darwin, Mr., 304, 309. 



Deil's Brig, Holborn Head, 123. 



Devon River, 1. 



Dick, Robert, birthplace, 8 ; scho- 

 lar, 9, 11 ; son of nature, 12, 18 ; 

 treatment at home, 13 ; his self- 

 control, 15 ; apprenticed to a 

 baker, 17 ; acquaintance with 

 Botany, 19 ; a great reader, 20 ; 

 becomes a journeyman, 22 ; re 

 moves from Greenock to Thurso 

 23 ; begins trade as a baker, 40 , 

 Conchology, 41 ; Botany, 42 ; 

 Entomology, 44 ; the boys aud 



