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Better after dinner, and went to work on a proof 

 — Marsupials.' 



' i$tk. — Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte 

 here with one of his boys. I never saw a better 

 expression on anyone's face than on that lad's. 

 He listened most attentively to his father's con- 

 versation with R. The Prince is now very stout, 

 but has very good features and eyes, and when 

 the pleasant smile and eagerness fades from his 

 face he looks very Bonapartish. He told me 

 that this was his birthday, and that he was now 

 thirty-eight.' 



' ijt/i. — Lieut. - Colonel Charles Hamilton 

 Smith invited R. to stay with him at Plymouth. 

 It so happens that I know him, for he used to be 

 much at the Cuviers when my father and I were 

 in Paris.' 



Owen also refers to this invitation in writing 

 at this time to one of his sisters : ' Cary and I, 

 who have not journeyed together for a long time, 

 have accepted a kind invitation from Colonel 

 Hamilton Smith to spend the " Association 

 Week " at Plymouth with him. He is a widower 

 with daughters. We then think of visiting Mr. 

 Clift's county, Cornwall. We may perhaps spend 

 a few days with Sir Thomas Acland, whom I met 

 at breakfast at Sir Robert Inglis's the other 

 morning, and who kindly proposed it' Owen 

 then, in answer to a question of his sister's, ' Why 

 the sea is salt,' says he will ask Whewell when he 



