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Mr. Smith, however, persevered. He obtained from Ed- 
ward some notes of his observations, and, after correcting 
them, he offered to send them to the Zoologist, and publish 
them under his own name. “I have no doubt,” he said, 
“that the articles would be acceptable to the editor; but, 
if you do not approve of this plan, I hope you will not for 
a moment allow me to interfere with you. At all events, I 
trust that you will have no objection to let the information 
be known to a much wider circle of readers, and especial- 
ly of zoologists, than are likely to consult the pages of the 
Banffshire Journal.” 
Edward at last gave his consent; and in the Zoologist 
for 1850* Mr. Smith inserted a notice of the sanderlings 
which had been shot by Edward on the sands of Boyndie. 
In the following year Mr. Smith inserted in the same maga- 
zine a notice of the spinous shark which Edward had seen 
under Gamrie Head.+ “In order,” says Mr. Smith, “to de- 
termine whether it was the spinous shark or not, I sent 
Mr. Edward the 39th volume of the ‘ Naturalist’s Library,’ 
which contains an account, by Dr. Hamilton, of Edinburgh, 
of the Squalida, or family of sharks, and in which there is 
a colored engraving of this particular shark. In reply, Mr. 
Edward observes, ‘I have now no doubt whatever that the 
animal discovered and examined by me was the spinous 
shark.’ ” 
In another article Mr. Smith described Edward in the 
following terms: “I have oftener than once made men- 
tion in the Zoologist of Mr. Thomas Edward, shoe-maker in 
Banff, who is a zealous admirer of nature and an excellent 
preserver of animals. Occasionally he tears himself, as it 
were, from the employment to which necessity compels 
him, and slakes his thirst for the contemplation of zoologic- 
al scenes and objects by a solitary ramble amidst the mount- 
ains and hills which so greatly abound in the upper portion 
* Zoologist, 1850: 2915. + Zoologist, 1851: 8057. 
