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very best man of business, given to the readuig 

 of Scotch political economy, and gifted Avith 

 peculiarly clear notions on the currency ques- 

 tion ? . 



It is puzzling, truly. I shall be very glad if 

 these pages help you somewhat toward, solving 

 the puzzle. 



"We shall agree at least that the study of 

 Natural History has become now-a-days an 

 honorable one. A Cromarty stone-mason is 

 now perhaps the most important man in the 

 city of Edinburgh, by dint of a work on fos- 

 sil fishes ; and the successful investigator of 

 the minutest animals takes place unquestioned 

 among men of genius, and, like the philosopher 

 of old Greece, is considered, by virtue of his 

 science, fit company for dukes and princes. Nay, 

 the study is now more than honorable ; it is 

 (what to many readers will be a far higher 

 recommendation) even fashionable. Every well- 

 educated person is eager to know something 

 at least of the wonderful organic forms which 

 surround him in every sunbeam and every 

 pebble ; and books of Natural History are 

 finding their way more and more into drawing- 

 rooms and school-room?, and exciting greater 



