192 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. yi. 



worshipped at home amongst the Friends, for, 

 though she is Elizabeth Fry, she is still human. 

 She promised to give Willy a book of texts of 

 her own compiling.' 



On January 31, Owen went with Conybeare 

 to help to receive Prince Albert and the King of 

 Prussia at the Royal Society. 



Owen was at this time occupied in preparing his 

 course of Hunterian Lectures, which was to con- 

 clude the series begun by him in 1837. Speaking 

 on the subject of this concluding course, he says : 

 1 I intend this year to lecture on the Comparative 

 Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System, 

 and this will terminate the series which I began 

 in 1837.' 



In giving a short review of his former lectures, 

 when the course for this year was concluded, he 

 adds : — 



1 I have the pleasure to see the friendly 

 countenances of some here present who have 

 patiently listened to the whole of this series of 

 lectures, and who may have discerned in it, not- 

 withstanding the long and frequent intervals, the 

 characters of a single and connected scheme of 

 instruction in Comparative Anatomy and Physio- 

 logy.' He then expressed his great regret that 

 the ' tenants of the gallery,' 3 to whom he was 

 most anxious to impart instruction, were only able 



3 The gallery of the theatre body of the theatre to the Coun- 

 was devoted to students ; the cil and members of the College. 



