9 o PROFESSOR OWEN ch. ill. 



You will observe how ill this is written, owing to 

 the unsteadiness in my right hand, but we must 

 submit to the approach of age ; therefore, my dear 

 Richard must not expect many letters from me. 

 Your sisters will write by every opportunity, 

 and I hope you will do the same.' On July 

 20, 1835, hi s birthday, the event took place to 

 which he had so long looked forward, his marriage 

 with Miss Clift. 3 It was a very quiet wedding, 

 and is thus described in the diary: — 'July 20. — 

 Richard Owen and I, my father and Harriet 

 Sheppard, were in the new St. Pancras Church, 

 Euston Square, by half-past eight o'clock. The Rev. 

 Mr. Laing came immediately after we got into the 

 vestry, and, Caroline Clift having been lost on the 

 road, Mrs. Richard Owen returned to breakfast at 

 No. 1 Euston Grove 4 ; after which my husband, 

 my mother, and I set off to Oxford. On the way 

 we left my mother to return to town by the same 

 post chariot which took us, as we changed it there 

 for another. We then posted on till we arrived at 

 Oxford in time for a late dinner. We left London 

 at 10.30 a.m.' 



Later in this year an important microscopic 

 discovery was made by Owen — although at first it 

 seemed merely a curiosity of science. Mr. Wormald, 



3 The marriage certificate the presence of William Clift 



states that Richard Owen, of the and Harriet Sheppard. 

 parish of St. Clement Danes, 4 The residence at that time 



was married to Caroline Clift, of of Mr. and Mrs. Clift. 

 the parish of St. Pancras, in 



