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out ; then drawn, cast, and coloured, and then to 

 make some sections. R. delighted with them.' 



1 10th. — R. not well, so he lay on the sofa with 

 his fossil heads about him, whilst I wrote from 

 his dictation. Mr. Edw. Forbes came in to 

 name Mr. Green's fossils, and smoked a cigar 

 which R. keeps in the Australian skull — the one 

 which the natives used for carrying water, and 

 has a band of dried grass attached to it for the 

 purpose of carrying. 



4 Mr. Scharf all this time in the library drawing 

 the glyptodon's skull.' 



' i^th. — At Sir Robert Peel's, Drayton Manor, 

 on Saturday, 14th. Bishop of Chichester, Mr. 

 Wheatstone, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Mr. Stephenson, 8 

 &c. Saw the business of the Commission (Health 

 of Towns) brought to light there. Sir Robert had 

 his tenants to dinner to meet the scientific gentle- 

 men, inorderto discuss some matters of agriculture.' 



In a letter to his sister Maria, written from 

 Drayton Manor, December 16, 1844, Owen gives 

 an account of his visit, and tells the following 

 anecdote of the Bishop of Oxford (Richard 

 Bagot) on the occasion of the investiture of Louis 

 Philippe with the Order of the Garter : ' On 

 that day, after dinner, at Windsor Castle, the 

 King of the French sent his regards to the Bishop, 

 who approached him, 4 when the King of the 

 French said : " Sir, I was much moved by the 



8 Robert Stephenson, the civil engineer. 



