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gown. After the breakfast saw Mr. C. Darwin 

 in the Zoological Section. We then made up a 

 party to go up the river. We hired two boats. 

 In ours, besides ourselves, were Mr. Darwin, 

 Mr. Hill, and Professor Langberg, from Norway. 

 In the other boat were Dr. and Mrs. Acland, Dr. 

 Hooker, and Ehrenberg. We raced for some way, 

 and landed at the bridge. On Sunday R. got up 

 to early chapel. After breakfast went to St. Mary's, 

 and by a curious coincidence the annual sermon 

 was on the " Pride of Knowledge." The Bishop 

 of Oxford, however, gave a very fine sermon- 

 On Monday Prince Albert came, and spent some 

 time with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar at the 

 Zoological Section. In the evening R. and I 

 dined at the Bishop's palace. The Bishop was 

 most kind and hospitable, and we were all very 

 merry at table. Frank Buckland afterwards 

 favoured us with a solo on the French horn. 

 The Bishop picked some beautiful roses for us to 

 take back.' 



Owen writes to his sister Maria from Dr. 

 Pusey's, Christ Church, Oxford, on June 26 : 

 ' Cary and I have enjoyed ourselves extremely. 

 We are master and mistress, after a fashion, of 

 this house, the Doctor having fled, and liberally 

 left it for the savans. Cary presided at one end 

 of a breakfast-table this morning at which sat 

 Ehrenberg, Nilsson, Milne-Edwards, Van der 

 Hoeven, and other distinguished foreigners ; Sir 



