96 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. ill. 



parative Anatomy, and since become unrivalled 

 through the care of a wise and liberal adminis- 

 tration. 



' The subsequent confidence reposed in me by 

 the Council in reference to the preparation of the 

 descriptive catalogue of the Physiological Depart- 

 ment of the Collection confided to me demands 

 my warmest acknowledgments : their favourable 

 reception and approval of that work have always 

 formed my most grateful recompense, and have 

 given the strongest stimulus to increased exertions 

 towards its completion in a manner as nearly as 

 possible equal ' [the draft ceases here]. 



Mrs. Owen's diary then continues : — 



'April 21. — Richard 7 went to the Hon. Ar- 

 tillery Co. for ball practice.' 



1 2%th. — My Father and R. at the great Zoo 

 Meeting at the Adelaide Gallery to vote for the 

 new Council. A printed letter on the subject 

 came last night from the " malcontents." After 

 tea to the Royal Institution. Mr. Faraday on 

 manufacture of black-lead pencils.' 



' May 4. — Richard off to a Zoo Council. 

 Back about 8.30. Then wrote to Lord Derby to 



7 Owen joined the H.A.C. Ground, on Thursday, April 

 in 1834. He was informed in 10, 1834, at 7 o'clock in the 

 April of that year that his ad- afternoon [sic]. The fees of 

 mission would be ' balloted for admission and the subscription 

 at a Court of Assistants of the to be paid at the time of ad- 

 said Company to be held at the mission are 6/. 6i-.' He resigned 

 Armoury House, in the Artillery in July 1842. 



