CHAP. Xv.] Mr. Bate’s Eulogiums. 281 
him. Thus Mr. Norman desired him to send his Sponges to 
Mr. Bowerbank, and his Ascidians to Mr. Alder, of Newcas- 
tle, who were engaged in working up these subjects. The 
investigators did not know—for none of them had ever seen 
him —that Edward had the greatest difficulty in earning 
money enough to maintain his large family. Sometimes, 
in fact, he was on the brink of starvation, And yet he 
worked for his naturalist friends as willingly and as hardly, 
perhaps more hardly, than if he had been a gentleman of 
independent fortune. 
When the “ History of the Sessile-eyed Crustacea” came 
out, the assistance which had been rendered by Edward to 
Mr. Bate was fully and generously acknowledged. Let any 
one look over the book, and he will find of how much serv- 
ice Edward was to Mr. Bate while he was preparing the 
work for publication. Mr. Bate frequently speaks of Ed- 
ward as “our valued, able, and close observer.” In addi- 
tion to the references to Edward already mentioned, we 
may subjoin the following: In speaking of the Lysianassa 
longicornus, Mr, Bate says that it “has been forwarded to 
him by that obliging and indefatigable naturalist, Mr. Ed- 
ward, of Banff;” that his only specimen of Anonyx obesus 
has been sent to him by Mr. Edward; that the Phorus Hol- 
belli has been sent to him from Banff “ by that -indefatiga- 
ble lover of nature, Mr. Edward ;” that the species of Dar- 
winia compressa was first taken, by Mr. Edward, at the en- 
trance to the Moray Firth; that the first species of the Cal- 
liope Ossiani had been received from Mr. Edward, “from 
which specimen the original description in the catalogue in 
the British Museum has been drawn up.” Mr. Bate also 
stated that he only knew of the genus Eurisus through an 
imperfect specimen which had been taken by Mr. Edward 
in the Moray Firth, “the first and only British representa- 
tive of the genus that we have seen.” So, too, with the 
genus Protomedia, of which “ only two specimens were col- 
lected at Banff by Mr. Edward.” A moiety was obtained 
