a4 Edward’s Difficulties. [cwap. xv. 
all over a most brilliant red. I have been told that this 
species has never been found outside the medusa. How- 
ever this may be, all mine were. And what appears to be 
most extraordinary is, that we have had no meduse here 
this season. During the months of July, August, and Sep- 
tember, I have seen them, generally, by hundreds and thou- 
sands.’” Mr. Bate proceeds to say, “ Mr. Edward informs 
us that he has seen specimens of these crustaceans thrown 
on the shore in extraordinarily large quantities. After a 
storm one night, he saw them forming a band an inch and 
a half deep for thirty yards along the beach.”’* 
Mr. Bate so much admired Edward’s enthusiasm in the 
cause of natural history, that he more than once urged him 
to publish his observations: “ I received from you,” he says, 
“a few days since, a parcel of Hurydice pulchra, in sand, 
one of which only was alive. I have been much interest- 
ed. in watching its active habits, and the manner in which it 
buries itself in the sand..... I wish that you would write 
some papers on the habits of these creatures. Keep a few 
at home under as favorable conditions as possible. I am 
sure much is yet to be learned about them. I know no one 
better fitted to work out the subject than yourself. For 
instance, get some of the Podocerus capillatus, and find out 
how it spins the web that makes the nest; and closely 
watch all their ways.” 
Edward might no doubt have written and published 
many papers in the scientific journals. He might have 
gained praise, fame, and honor. But what mattered these 
to him? The principal thing that he wanted was time— 
time not only for his investigations, but to earn money for 
the maintenance of his family. He had now a wife and 
eleven children to support. He earned nothing by science : 
he earned every thing by his shoe-maker’s awl. What 
* “History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea,” by C. Spence 
Bate and J. 0. Westwood, vol. ii., pp. 525, 526, 
