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she too may prove the mother of as good, if not 

 as great a man, is the fervent prayer of her 

 affectionate husband, 



' Richard Owen.' 



In a postscript to this letter he writes : ' On a 

 wooden tablet which records Harvey's bene- 

 factions to his native place — the Church Ward- 

 ens have had the grace to say, in a parenthesis 

 "(he found out the circulation of blood.)" . . . 

 I proceed now to discuss a goblet of brandy and 

 water for the good of the house, and a pipe of 

 tobacco for my own benefit.' 



In this month Part I. of the ' Report of British 

 Fossil Reptiles ' was finished. Sir P. de Grey 

 Egerton writes from Oulton Park on the sub- 

 ject :— 



Sir Philip Egerton to R. Owen 



October 26, 1840. 



1 My dear Owen, — . . . I have just completed 

 the perusal of your first report [" British Fossil 

 Reptiles "], which is glorious. I feel perfectly sure 

 that the terms in which that report is spoken of 

 by those with whom I have conversed, and who 

 are more competent than I am to value its merits, 

 and the public mention of it at Glasgow, in the 

 secretaries' report and elsewhere, must be most 



