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artist friends would ever believe. Turner offered 

 him a glass of wine ! It was while they were 

 coming downstairs that he first observed 

 symptoms of an inward struggle going on in 

 Turner's bosom. When they were passing a 

 little cupboard on the landing this struggle 

 reached a climax. Finally, Turner said, ' Will 

 you — will you have a glass of wine ? ' This offer 

 having been accepted, after a good deal of 

 groping in the cupboard a decanter was pro- 

 duced, of which the original glass stopper had 

 been replaced by a cork, with the remains of 

 some sherry at the bottom. This Owen duly con- 

 sumed, and shortly afterwards took his leave, with 

 many expressions of the pleasure that this visit 

 had afforded him and a disturbing conviction that 

 the sherry might lurk indefinitely in his system. 



Owen had several visits from Turner at the 

 College of Surgeons, and on August 8 Mrs. Owen 

 writes : ' I translated part of the programme of 

 the Munich Exhibition for 1845 f° r Turner, as 

 he is thinking of sending them a picture.' 



On September 1 Owen set out for the 

 Continent, in order to attend the meeting of 

 the Association of Italian Naturalists, which was 

 held at Naples. From a memorandum he sent to 

 Mr. Clift about the forwarding of his letters we 

 gather that he meant to stay from September 

 3 to 7 in Paris, 8th to nth Marseilles, nth 

 to 28th Naples, September 29 to October 6 



