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CONTENTS. 



superior people " — Letter on the Christian Life — His marriage : 

 adoption of Robbie — Collections of shells — Resigns the ministry 

 at Cairo Street Chapel — Work for the Smithsonian Institution : 

 " Lectures on Mollusca" — Supplementary Report for the British 

 Association — Slavery in the United States : letter to Mr. Seward 

 — " Rambles of a Lecturer : " Bristol : Cornwall : a majestic sea : 

 a tipsy fellow-traveller : " no longer parson " — Removes to Man- 

 chester : daily life — Greek Church — Hartley Institution : testi- 

 monials — Distress in the cotton districts : teaching the unem- 

 ployed — Emigrants to Canada — Lark Cottage — Results of his 

 work — British Association at Newcastle: "the great negro 

 fight : " Mr. Craft : Committee on Nomenclature — Visit to Sir 

 W. C. Trevelyan — Natural History and Physics — His collections 

 — Trading naturalists — Declines the Liverpool Domestic Mission 

 — Fire at the Smithsonian — Leaves for Montreal ... ... ... 243 



CHAPTER VII. 



Life in Montreal : 1865-1877. JEt. 46-57. 



Voyage : a collision — Indian revenge — Settles at Montreal — Catholics 

 — Attends the Episcopalian Church — Death of Travers Madge — 

 Formation of a Sanitary Association : cholera warded off — The 

 Fenian Raid— Bank failure— Present to McGill College : " The 

 Carpenter Collection" — His school — Sanitary Reports and 

 Memorials: free bathing-ground: infant mortality: "Practical 

 Suggestions:" the Mayor's testimony to him: "Others in the 

 field" — Letters to his sisters : Canadian boys : "Damnation 

 Sunday : " Murder of D'Arcy McGee, M.P. : Soldiers' Home— 

 His new house : Brandon Lodge — His school was his church — 

 Holidays — Partings — Death of his sister Anna — At Boston: 

 preaches in "a Coloured Church" — The Catholic Cemetery: 

 Dominion Square — Non-sanitary doctors — The C. D. Acts — 

 Winter glories — A summer excursion : the Saguenay River — 

 The home — Visit from his sister Mary — With the United States 

 Fish Commission: three steamers on fire — New female jail — 

 Temperance : "Law an Educator" — Visit to England : welcome 

 at Warrington : voyage back — "They don't care for anything : " 

 " The Nose : its Uses and Duties : " new Health Association — 

 Small-pox : Anti- vaccination riots — The Oka Indians : his letters : 

 priestly oppression — The Mountain and the Park — Failing health 

 — Temperance effort : Hon. A. Vidal — Confirmation at St. 

 George's — Last days ... ... ... 280 



