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at all, had the numerous valuable specimens sent 

 to him as the only person generally known at the 

 time as at all interested in the subject. They are 

 now in the museum cubes, and it is the reopening 

 of the museum which has occasioned R. to bring 

 them out of their hiding-places. He thinks the 

 collection will considerably surprise the scientific 

 world when it is once more available. To-day 

 R. got the first volume of "Hunter" by Palmer.' 1 



' ^tk. — The museum in good order for the visit 

 of the Trustees. The fossils and shells which R. 

 has put in the flat cases have a very fine effect, 

 and the way in which he has contrived the sup- 

 ports in the side cases is quite successful. They 

 interfere as little as can be with the skeletons. 

 The Trustees greatly admired the arrangements.' 



'March 22. — R. went out late to the 

 Geological Society ; a dismal, cold, and snowy 

 evening. He has been writing a paper on the 

 Toxodon, brought by Mr. Darwin, to be read 

 there, but not to-night.' 



'April 11. — Dr. A. Farre and Mr. Darwin 

 here this afternoon. After tea muscular fibre and 

 microscope in the drawing-room.' 



' lgf/i. — R. wrote the latter part of his third 

 lecture and read it to me. He received to-day 

 as a present from Agassiz his plates of fossil 

 fish.' 



1 The Works of Joh7i Hunter, by James F. Palmer. 2 vols. 

 8vo., London, 1835. 



