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the body with an antiseptic composition and 

 bandages.] Will you oblige us by giving us your 

 opinion what we ought to charge ? We are 

 entirely at a loss to know the value, with a family 

 of such wealth, of our process. It has never 

 been done in the West of England.' 



From a memorandum on the letter, such as it 

 was the custom of Professor Owen to make, we 

 gather that he 'recommended 105/./ a reply for 

 which the firm ' sincerely thank ' him. 



We then find Owen again attending Faraday's 

 lectures at the Royal Institution, as the following 

 extract shows : — - 



' To Faraday's lecture, which was interesting 

 as usual. Saw Mr. Lyell, Sir Charles Lemon, &c. 

 Mr. Guillemard was there, and was sleeping 

 blissfully when Faraday began. He went on 

 napping and bobbing his head till there was an 

 experiment which made some little explosion, 

 which woke him up with a start. He sat look- 

 ing severely at Mr. Faraday for the rest of the 

 lecture.' 



' 2^th. — Sir P. Egerton here. He said he 

 was very sorry not to have been in the House 

 last night, as something was said by Wackley 

 about pensions, and Sir Robert Peel answered it 

 in a speech which was highly favourable to R.' 



' 2^th. — In looking over an artist's drawing of 

 a great fish's skeleton in the library, R. noticed 

 horse s teeth in some of the sketches ! ' 



