106 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. iv. 



subject continued to deliver them up to 1855. 

 He further adopted the practice of printing a 

 synopsis of each course, and a glance at a complete 

 series of these summaries gives us a means of es- 

 timating the extent of scientific information com- 

 municated by Owen to the students during his 

 Professorship. 



In this year (1837) he also edited 'Hunter's 

 Animal Economy.' He sent a copy of this work 

 to Whewell, his old schoolfellow and fellow-towns- 

 man (who afterwards became the well-known 

 Master of Trinity), and received the following 

 reply : — 



' I was much pleased to receive your letter 

 and to find that you are about to publish Hunter's 



works I have always been afraid of 



Physiology as a branch of my undertaking. 1 do 

 not see how I can avoid taking some notice of 

 it when I complete my Philosophy, for it is the 

 subject of the greatest promise and the deepest 

 interest of the whole of science ; but how I am to 

 arrange the principles of four great writers and 

 penetrate their true character I do not know. 

 The mere task of reading them is formid- 

 able. . . .' 



Whewell then adds this protest in a post- 

 script : — 



' By the way, it is a great shame that you, an 

 old fellow-townsman, persist in making my name 

 more formidable than it really is by writing it 



