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splendid drawings. Returned to town, and dined with 
Bentham. 
This morning we breakfasted with Richard Taylor 
in the City; and went afterwards to the College of 
Surgeons, by appointment Hooker had made, to see 
Professor Owen, and the fine museum of the college 
under his charge (John Hunter’s originally) ; a mag- 
nificent collection it is, in the finest possible order ; 
and the arrangement and plan of the rooms is far, 
very far better and prettier than any I have seen. 
I shall make some memoranda about it. We there 
met Mr. Darwin, the naturalist who accompanied 
Captain King in the Beagle. I was glad to form the 
acquaintance of such a profound scientific scholar as 
Professor Owen, —the best comparative anatomist liy- 
ing, still young, and one of the most mild, gentle, 
childlike men I ever saw. He gave us a great deal 
of most interesting information, and showed us per- 
sonally throughout the whole museum. I am every 
day under deeper obligations to Sir William Hooker, 
to whom I owe the gratification of forming so many 
acquaintances under such favorable circumstances. 
Hooker stays over night often at his brother-in-law’s, 
Sir Francis Palgrave, the great antiquarian and Saxon 
scholar, Keeper of the Records, of whom I have read 
so much in the “ British Review.” His eldest daugh- 
ter, Maria, is spending the winter there. On Hooker’s 
return on Monday he was so kind as to bring me an 
invitation from Lady Palgrave to dine with them on 
Saturday, which will be the last I shall see of Hooker, 
as he is to set out on Monday for home. In the after- 
noon we spent an interesting hour in looking through 
the vast halls of the British Museum, ‘surtieciatle 
through the sculpture, the Elgin marbles, Egyptian 
