Huxley continued with his lectures to the working men, and a member of the audience took notes and published six fourpenny pamphlets which were brought together into a book which Darwin thought " capitally written . . . I may as well shut up shop altogether . " On 4 February Lyell published his " Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man ".
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The position of baillie was a powerful one and they had many ways of making money for themselves, such as the bailie's'darak', as it was called, or a day's labour in the year from every tenant on the estate; confiscations, as they generally seized on all the goods and effects of such as suffered capitally; all fines for killing game, blackfish, or cutting green wood were laid on by themselves, and sometimes went into their own pockets.
