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Owen then relates his journey back to town 

 and concludes : ' I may just mention having been 

 for the first time, last night, at the House of 

 Lords. Blantyre, being admitted in his own 

 right, gave me an order which Lord Southampton 

 had sent him. I heard the Duke of Wellington, 

 Earl Grey, the Chancellor (Brougham), Duke of 

 Sussex, Duke of Buckingham, Lord Eldon, 

 and a few others speak, and saw some of the 

 " forms " of the " House." I shall now settle 

 down with goodwill to my usual occupations, 

 which, believe me, I would not exchange for the 

 duties of the Premier. I did not envy his or 

 the Chancellor's compulsory attendance for a long 

 and tedious sitting in a close and over-heated 

 apartment.' 



Early in 1834 Owen was appointed to the 

 newly established chair of Comparative Anatomy 

 at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Here he num- 

 bered amongst his pupils Rymer Jones, Arthur 

 Farre, and William (afterwards Sir William) 

 White Cooper, all of whom became his intimate 

 friends. 



In the same year Owen was elected F.R.S. 

 The original certificate stands as follows : — 



' Richard Owen, Esq., Assistant Conservator 

 in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 — a gentleman intimately acquainted with Physi- 

 ology, Comparative Anatomy, and the various 

 branches of Natural History, author of a paper on 



