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push himself forward; he had no one to help him to ob- 
tain any situation; and he eventually gave it up as a hope- 
less project. : 
His attention was next turned to photography. He ob- 
tained a treatise on the subject; he read and studied it; 
and then he purchased chemicals and a camera. To obtain 
these, he again drew upon his savings-bank by selling an- 
other portion of his natural-history collection. He found 
the practice of photography very agreeable, and he was at 
length enabled to take a very fair portrait. But he found 
that really good portraits could not be taken except in a 
glass-windowed apartment provided for the purpose. He 
had no such apartment, and he had not money enough to 
build one. His portraits were taken in the open air. Per- 
haps, too, he wanted that deftness of hand and delicacy of 
treatment which, had he been younger, he would more read- 
ily have mastered. For by this time Edward was growing 
old and stiff-handed. Besides, there were other photogra- 
phers in the town, better provided with capital and ma- 
chinery, and it is scarcely to be wondered at if his trade in 
photographic pictures should have been but small. Yet 
some of his portraits, more particularly of himself and his 
family, are exceedingly well done. 
In the mean time, however, the activity of his mind and 
the closeness of his observation would not allow him to re- 
main at rest. He had done what he could for science. 
But there were other things to be thought over and writ- 
ten about. One of the subjects that attracted him was 
antiquities; and he began with the antiquities of Banff. 
Several articles on the subject appeared in the Banffshire 
Journal, which were thus introduced by the editor: “‘We 
recently mentioned that our townsman, Mr. Thomas Ed- 
ward, was engaged in preparing notes on the antiquities of 
the town and neighborhood. We have pleasure in giving 
the following extract from his MSS. The extract, it will 
be seen, embodies two important practical suggestions—one 
