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extraordinary vocalist — two octaves clear and more. 

 Captain Henry, her husband, plays the violoncello; 

 I take the flute, Lady H. the harp, and one of 

 her daughters the piano. . . . Too tired to write 

 when I go to bed, and seldom awake earlier than 

 in time for an hour's work in the museum before 

 breakfast. It is chiefly of fossils, several thousands, 

 and some of them the finest in the world. I de- 

 scribed one at the Geological Society last Wed- 

 nesday night. . . . Lady H. and I have a joint 

 memoir on another rarity for the Oxford Meeting 

 [of the British Association].' 



To this meeting Owen went a few days later. 



'June 23. — Prince C. L. Bonaparte called, 

 and went with us to Paddington. Our party 

 consisted besides of Professor Nilsson, of Lund, 

 Sweden, Professor Eckart, of Christiania, Dr. 

 Allman (Ireland), and Professor Ansted. We 

 arrived at Oxford at half-past one. We took the 

 proteus in a pickle-bottle, as Dr. Acland had 

 asked us to do so, to compare it with his. We 

 had Lady Hastings' crocodiles' heads in a great 

 basket carefully packed. Prince Charles Lucien 

 took it on the seat with him in our fly, as there 

 was no other place to put it, and sat in the 

 seat with his back to the horses, with his arm 

 embracing it. He has now grown a beard. Sir 1 

 Robert Inglis had been very urgent about R. 

 coming to see him as soon as he arrived at the 

 Vice-Chancellor's. So R. having dropped the 



