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without any remonstrance. But as things turned out 

 it was not possible for him to leave the matter as it 

 stood. 



At the association, where he had good reason to 

 expect nothing but compliments and praise, he was 

 much astonished and somewhat abashed to be accosted 

 by his friend Gwyn Jeffreys, whose judgment and 

 good opinion he especially valued, in a tone of 

 surprised expostulation, that his catalogue, of all 

 men's, should have been so slovenly. He was much 

 pained, and, from the unexpected nature of the charge, 

 was quite at a loss what to say. As he had no 

 notion of the actual grounds on which it was based, 

 this is not to be wondered at. 



Like the Welsh shoemaker, he had the mens conscia 

 recti, and, so far as the fofaminifera were concerned, 

 in which Mrs. Robertson was ever his faithful help- 

 mate, he might be said, like the Welsh shoemaker's 

 rival, to have both men's and women's conscia recti. 



Still, troubled in his righteous soul, he hastened 

 home to find out where he had gone astray. Then, 

 for the first time, he became aware of what had 

 happened. In the sequel, the Society of Field 

 Naturalists behaved very handsomely. They entirely 

 exonerated Mr. Robertson, and made the best amends 

 to him in their power, as will be seen by the following 

 notice inserted in all subsequent issues of their volume. 



" The list of marine mollusca contained in that part 

 of the guide-book for the British Association, which 

 was compiled under the auspices of the Society of 

 Field Naturalists, Glasgow, contained many errors. 

 For these errors Mr. David Robertson was in no way 



