. The British Tunicata; an unfinished monograph. Sea squirts; Tunicata. LIFE OF JOSHUA ALDER. JOSHUA ALDEK was born at Easter Eve, 1792, in Dean Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where liis father was in business as a provision merchant. At an early age he was sent to a school which was kept by two ladies in that town; and later was educated under his relative, the Eev. Joseph Simpson, at Tanfield School, where he was taught the rudiments of classics and mathematics. " He appears to have been a lad of observation, vivacity, and humour. He was fond of sketching portraits and cari- catures on th
. The British Tunicata; an unfinished monograph. Sea squirts; Tunicata. LIFE OF JOSHUA ALDER. JOSHUA ALDEK was born at Easter Eve, 1792, in Dean Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where liis father was in business as a provision merchant. At an early age he was sent to a school which was kept by two ladies in that town; and later was educated under his relative, the Eev. Joseph Simpson, at Tanfield School, where he was taught the rudiments of classics and mathematics. " He appears to have been a lad of observation, vivacity, and humour. He was fond of sketching portraits and cari- catures on the kitchen walls with a burnt stick, and of holding- boyish dramatic performances with puppets, which he manu- factured chiefly himself, and for which he pronounced the speeches, and thus, amid family gatherings of old and young, many a pleasant and joyous evening was spent. In the prosecution of these juvenile amusements we may observe the early evidence of his genial disposition, and the germs of those powers of observation and delineation which gradually grew up and developed themselves into talents of no mean ; * At the age of fifteen Joshua Alder finally left school; and within a year his father died (November, 1808) and he at once commenced to assist his widowed mother in the business. [t would not have been in accordance with his character if he had not done everything that he should have done in the matter of this business in the years which followed. But truly for business and money-making he had little taste : and in 1840, when 48 years of age, he retired into private life, and from that day living in quiet happiness with his devotedly attached sister, Miss Alder, he gave his time wholly to his favourite studies in Zoology. *From "Notice of the Life of the late Joshua Alder, Esq., by D. Embleton, M. ; (' Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumberland and Durham,' Vol. I, 1867, p. 324 ) I am indebted to this memoir for information respecting Mr. Alder's early l
Size: 2125px × 1176px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpubli, booksubjectseasquirts
