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nothing there worth seeing, but if they liked he would 

 show them some of the things he had himself. 



Mrs. Robertson remarked that that was what they 

 wished to see most of all. 



His readiness to be friendly with them most likely 

 in part arose from the circumstance that he and Mr. 

 Robertson had a common interest in the sessile-eyed 

 Crustacea, and the parts of Bate and Westwood's 

 work on that subject then in course of publication 

 had shown that they were both corresponding with 

 Spence Bate, and sending him rare specimens and 

 new species of these little animals. 



When inspecting Thomas Edward's collection they 

 were much interested by the ingenious, primitive, and 

 economical way in which he had the numerous small 

 objects comprised in it put up. They were fixed by 

 pins or otherwise to a board, the board carrying four 

 pegs, one at each corner to support the next tier 

 above, and so on with a goodly number of shelves 

 thus simply constructed, forming together a cabinet 

 at the smallest possible cost. 



Mr. Robertson mentioned to Edward that their 

 chief object in coming to Banff, apart from the 

 pleasure of the visit then being paid, was to see some 

 of the post-tertiary deposits in the neighbourhood ; 

 that he had the names of the places, but that he did 

 not know how to find the places themselves. The first 

 name on the list was Black Pots, the second King 

 Edwards, both near Banff, and a third was at Gamrie. 



Thomas Edward said that he knew them all well, 

 and that if Mr. Robertson could rise at 5 a.m., he 

 would go with him to Black Pots. 



