220 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. VII. 



On this visit to Ireland Owen visited Water- 

 ford, the Groves of Blarney, Killarney, Glengariff, 

 Dublin, and returned to London by way of 

 Bristol, Gloucester, and Derby ; but the whole of 

 his letters written during this tour are devoted to 

 the beauties of the scenery through which he was 

 passing. Before returning home he visited Lord 

 Rosse at Liverpool, and writes thus to Mr. Clift, 

 September 3 : — 



' You may imagine a man with a natural turn 

 for mechanics with ample means of indulging in it. 

 He has not only planned and manufactured, chiefly 

 with his own hands, his stupendous telescope, but 

 also most of the tools and machinery required 

 for making it. He married, wisely, a lady of 

 congenial taste, the daughter of a civil engi- 

 neer, and, 'tis said, a better mathematician than 

 himself. ... I spent a week at Killarney and 

 the picturesque neighbourhood with Murchison, 

 Phillips, Mr. Fox of Falmouth, and Forbes.' 



Owen then joined his wife, who was staying 

 at Derby, and after spending a fortnight there 

 returned to his work at the College of Surgeons. 



In September, Owen sent to the Rev. J. 

 Rowley, his godfather and former headmaster, a 

 copy of the first series of his Hunterian Lectures 

 ( 1 837-1 842), which had been published from notes 

 taken by William White Cooper and revised by 

 himself. In Mr. Rowley's letter of acknowledg- 

 ment, dated from Lancaster, September 4, 1843, 



