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getting on. A new window in the squirrel-room 

 — a great improvement. It was put in at R.'s 

 suggestion. 



' R. left me to superintend the drawing of a 

 new species of ourang-outang from Borneo. After 

 dinner he began an interesting paper oh the 

 subject and finished it before he went to bed. 

 Only the skull has been preserved.' 



We find from a letter from Lyell to Owen 

 at this time that the friendship which existed 

 between them had evidently only just begun. 



Charles Lyell to Richard Owen 



1 6 Hart Street : October 26, 1836. 



' My dear Sir,— Mrs. Lyell and I expect a 

 few friends here on Saturday next, 29th, to an 

 early tea party at eight o'clock, and it will give 

 us great pleasure if you can join it. 



' Among others you will meet Mr. Charles 

 Darwin, whom I believe you have seen, just 

 returned from South America, where he has 

 laboured for zoologists as well as for hammer- 

 bearers. I have also asked your friend Broderip. 

 ' Yours faithfully, 



' Charles Lyell.' 



'November 1. — R. translating from the Ger- 

 man all the evening. He made up his finished 

 paper on marsupial brains last night, and sent it 

 in this morning.' 



