Abstract
IT is rather a delicate thing and seldom advisable to publish a full and formal biography of a man with an account and attempted estimate of his work while he himself is still alive and in comparative vigour. There are many sound reasons, however, to justify Mr. Smiles in telling the wonderful story of the still living Thomas Edward, the Banff shoemaker and naturalist; not the least weighty of these is that it will bring to Edward some of that kudos and cash which he has earned long ago, and which it would have been well for himself and for science had they, or at least the latter, reached him years since.
Life of a Scottish Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society.
By Samuel Smiles. Portrait and Illustrations by George Reid, A.R.S.A. (London: John Murray, 1876.)
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A Working Naturalist . Nature 15, 349–351 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015349a0
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