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I was ever in. It was the residence of some 

 officer of the Abbey [Glastonbury], and is nearly 

 as old. It has a ghost, and Fielding wrote one 

 of his novels there. Hereafter it will have 

 geologists as pilgrims, for Hawkins has done 

 some wonderful work in the way of disencum- 

 bering the old Saurians of their stony shrouds. 

 . . . From Sharpham I went to Lyme Regis, and 

 there I met Buckland and Conybeare. They made 

 me prisoner, and drove me off to Axminster, of 

 which Conybeare is rector. Next day we had a 

 geological excursion with Mary Anning, and had 

 like to have been swamped with the tide. We 

 were cut off from rounding a point, and had to 

 scramble over the cliffs, I spent the next day in 

 Miss Philpott's museum ; then went to Char- 

 mouth, and so returned to London. . . . You 

 may perhaps have heard something of my late 

 discovery of a fossil monkey 8 in Norfolk.' 



On November 28 Owen was back again in 

 London. ' Willy is delighted to get his father 

 back,' the diary relates ; ' especially when he got 

 his accustomed ride round the room.' 



'December 1. — After breakfast R. and Mr. B. 9 

 sat in the back room with locked doors to keep 



8 l Description of the Jaw of to belong to a primitive ungu- 



the Fossil Macacus (Monkey) late, now claimed as one of the 



from Woodbridge,' Mag. Nat. ancestors of the horse. 

 Hist. This was afterwards 9 J. S. Bowerbank. 



shown by Mr. Ed. Charlesworth 



