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Grand Duke speaks English well. He was greatly 

 pleased with the bears. The elephant ill. The 

 rhinoceros was in the water, looking self-satisfied, 

 and like a clumsy model of a creature in mud.' 



'June 7. — Mr. Mitchell called about the 

 elephant. Dead. R. sent some College students 

 to take out the elephant's brain, but they found it 

 too difficult.' 



' Stk. — Pouring wet. R. went off to the 

 Gardens before seven. Came back with his hand 

 injured in getting the brain out. The skull was 

 sawn, and the splinters got into his hand as he 

 was drawing the brain out.' 



' \oth. — Grand Duke Constantine here. R. 

 went round the museum with him. He stayed an 

 hour and a half, and seemed greatly pleased.' 



' nth. — The presence of a portion of the de- 

 funct elephant on the premises made me keep 

 all the windows open, especially as the weather is 

 very mild. I got R. to smoke cigars all over the 

 house.' 



' 15M. — New Zealand paper sent by Mr. 

 Farish, with cuts of a head which was found by 

 natives in a river there and supposed to be a myste- 

 rious fierce something. R. says from what he can 

 make of the woodcuts he has little doubt but that 

 it was a calf's head.' 



On June 19 Owen paid a visit to Lady Has- 

 tings at Lymington. Writing to his sister Kate 

 (June 21, 1847), he says : 'The Marchioness is an 



