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Photo by John Moffatt, Edinburgh. From "Stevenson's Works." Pentland Edition. (Cassell.)

THOMAS STEVENSON, THE FATHER OF R. L. S.

"His entire life was devoted to the unremitting pursuit of a scientific profession . . . yet it was from him that Louis derived all the romantic and artistic elements that drew him away from engineering."—Graham Balfour's "Life of Stevenson." (Methuen.)

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