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Excerpt from The Naturalist of Cumbrae: A True Story, Being the Life of David Robertson
Those who read the following life will, I believe, not think that any serious apology is needed for its having been written. The subject of it has endeared himself to a large circle of friends; his character has proved itself' through a long life admirable for sin cerity and unselfishness his career is marked by the successful and, in many respects, surprising conquest of difficulties his natural history pursuits have had results of great interest and value. From his own lips and published writings, from a long series of manuscript note-books and a great store of corre spondence, trustworthy materials have been available 1 for the narrative. By many curious changes of fortune and a variety of humorous incidents, the course of the biography is enlivened; by the attractive details of scientific research as well as by the lessons of the life itself it is made instructive and profitable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
