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given away to the students. The Professor of 

 each different subject made a speech (long or short 

 as the case might be) in introducing their prize- 

 man to the President. R. O., as Professor of Com- 

 parative Anatomy, said a few words to the point 

 in bringing forward the young man who gained 

 the prize on that subject.' There is a footnote 

 here in Professor Owen's handwriting stating the 

 man to be William White Cooper. 



About this time Owen gave up his lodgings 

 in Symond's Inn, and moved to apartments 

 provided for his use at the College of Surgeons, 

 which he was now making ready to receive his 

 future wife in two months' time. ' On leaving 

 the hospital,' Miss Clift continues, * R. O. took us 

 to his house, where he regaled us with ices and 

 claret and cakes. We visited every part of the 

 house, and looked into the new part of the museum. 

 I was agreeably surprised at the size of the rooms 

 and the comfort of the kitchens, but the upstairs 

 is most inconvenient. It proved a wet afternoon, 

 so we came home in a coach from the house, 

 leaving R. O. to go to the great dinner of the 

 Governors.' 



It is not to be wondered at that his mother 

 writes about this time to ' R. O. : ' 'You are daily 

 in my thoughts, as from your letters I cannot help 

 thinking that you are about to be married, and I 

 hope happily so ; from all that I have heard of the 

 young lady, there is, I think, every prospect of it. 



