Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. / Fourth Edition

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LIFE OF A SCOTCH NATURALIST



LIFE OF A SCOTCH NATURALIST THOMAS EDWARD

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The history of the humblest human life is a tale of marvels. Dr. Johnson said that there was not a man in the street whose biography might not be made interesting, provided he could narrate something of his experiences of life, his trials, his difficulties, his successes, and his failures.
I use these words as an introduction to the following biography of my “man in the street.” Yet Thomas Edward is not an ordinary man. Eighteen years since, I mentioned him in Self-Help , as one of the most extraordinary instances of perseverance in the cause of science that had ever come under my notice.