12 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. I. 



ber 13, 1823, to James Stockdale Harrison, 

 ' Surgeon and Apothecary.' 



There is appended to the indenture to Seed a 

 certificate in Joseph Seed's handwriting which 

 reads as follows : 



■ Mr. Richard Owen became my pupil in conse- 

 quence of the death of Mr. Dixon [stc], the gentle- 

 man to whom he was an apprentice. From the 

 circumstance of myself being called upon by the 

 Service to which I belong, I had him transferred 

 to my respected friend Mr. J. Harrison, of this 

 town. 



' Mr. Owen's general conduct during the time 

 he was with me has my highest commendation, 

 and at all times I shall be happy to bear testimony 

 to his most deserving merit, as well as to his res- 

 pectability. 



' J. Seed, 

 ' Surgeon Royal Navy.' 



Lancaster, January 10, 1827. 



During Richard Owen's apprenticeship at 

 Lancaster, two adventures befell him which he 

 often related. They are given in his own words ; 3 

 but they necessarily suffer by the change from 

 spoken to written language. They lose his own 

 indescribable manner of telling a good story, 

 especially when relating his own experiences, 



3 The substance of these to Hood's Magazine, vol. ii., 

 two ghost stories was contri- 1844, p. 442, and vol. iii., 1845, 

 buted by the Professor himself p. 294. ■ • •■ . 



