174 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. v. 



' October 8. — At R.'s desire, in the Gardens 

 to-day, the monkeys and the elephants were 

 let out to enjoy the sunshine long before the 

 general time, two o'clock. I have long tried to 

 get some one to see to this, as many of the 

 animals would be the better for it.' 



On October 14, 1840, Owen wrote to his 

 wife from Hythe : ' I arrived safely at Hythe, 

 and have been most kindly received and hos- 

 pitably treated by Mr. Makeson [Mackeson] and 

 his four accomplished daughters and one son ; 

 they sent for a violoncello last* night, and we had 

 a Beethoven and a Hummel. This morning I 

 was at work two or three hours at the great 

 Reptile. It is not Ignanodon, but a kind of huge 

 crocodile. 4 . . . To-morrow I ride over to Folke- 

 stone, and Friday I proceed to Hastings, and 

 thence to Mr. Dixon's 5 at Worthing.' 



On October 18, 1840, after describing to his 

 wife the journey by mail-cart from Hythe 

 through Romney, Rye, Winchelsea, and over 

 Fairlight Down, he writes from the Royal Oak 

 Hotel, Hastings : ' I shall thus have but one day 

 for fossilising with Mr. Dixon, my geological 

 invitor to Worthing, for I must be in London to 

 preside at the Microscopical on Wednesday 

 evening, having the prefatory history of the 

 Society — part of which I have written — and all 



4 Di?iodocus mackesoni. 



5 Author of The Geology of Sussex, 1850. 



