322 Nilsson’s Goby. [omap. xvut. 
Although he had long given up searching along - shore 
for new specimens of fish, crustaceans, or mollusks, yet he 
had still another discovery to announce. . There was a new 
fish remaining in his possession which had been entirely 
lost sight of. “He had taken it in 1868, while searching 
among the rock-pools at the links. He kept it alive for 
two days, and when it died he put it into a bottle, intend- 
- ing to send it to Mr. Couch; but, somehow or other, the bot- 
tle got lost, and, though he turned the house almost upside 
down, he could never find it. 
Only about a year ago, while turning over his papers to. 
find the letters referred to in the preceding pages, he found 
the bottle containing the new fish at the bottom of the box. 
How great was his delight! But what was he to do with 
it? Mr. Couch was dead, all his fish friends were dead, and 
he did not know to whom to apply to name the new fish. 
But as he was about to proceed to Aberdeen to see Mr. 
Reid, who was so kind as to offer to paint his portrait, he: 
took the fish with him. Mr. Reid procured an introduction 
for him, through Dean of Guild Walker, to Professor Nicol, 
of Marischal College. The professor did not at first recog- 
nize the fish, but, on referring to his works on ichthyology, 
he found that it was a specimen of Nilsson’s goby, a species 
not before known to have been taken in British seas. 
Notwithstanding the thousands of specimens and the 
hundreds of cases that Edward had been obliged to part 
with during his successive illnesses, * he has still sixty cases 
filled with about two thousand specimens of natural objects. 
* After parting with the greater part of his third collection in 1867, 
Dr. Gray of the British Museum wrote to him: “I-wish I had known 
that you had one or more collections to dispose of, as I should have . 
been very glad to have purchased specimens of the Mollusca, Annelids, 
star-fish, Holothurea, Echina, and small fishes of the coast of Banff- 
shire, as I like to get specimens from the different parts of the coast. 
Should you have any.more, please let me know.” But the request 
came too late. 
