In connection with an observatory, his services would be invaluable." Nearly five years had elapsed since the receipt of this letter, and I had done nothing to put myself in communication with the Coupar Angus astronomer.

Strange to say, his existence was again recalled to my notice by Professor Grainger Stewart, of Edinburgh.

He said that if I was in the neighbourhood I ought to call upon him, and that he would receive me kindly.

His duty, he said, was to act as porter at the station, and to shout the name of the place as the trains passed.

I wrote to John Robertson accordingly, and received a reply stating that he would be glad to see me, and inclosing a photograph, in which I recognised a good, honest, sensible face, with his person inclosed in the usual station porter's garb, "C.R.