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be had, but we are creatures of habit ; the 

 longing for the wonted scrutiny into unknown 

 organisations would become uncontrollable, and 

 happiness as well as usefulness, in a career for 

 which I am peculiarly qualified, would be sacri- 

 ficed at a very dear rate for a few more hundred 

 pounds a year.' 



After an account of a dinner at Sir Robert 

 Peel's, where the possible action of the Chartists 

 on the following day was discussed among other 

 subjects, Owen refers to his ' Archetype of the 

 Skeleton ' in the following words : ' I have 

 brought out my " Archetype " book ; Van Voorst 

 sells it for ios., and is to give me 6s. 6d. for each 

 copy. He has taken 150 copies. Chapman took 

 fifty, and accounts to me for ys. 6d. for each, 

 selling at 10s.' 



His passion for anatomy was strong enough 

 to withstand the slight inconveniences connected 

 with the rooms which Owen inhabited at the 

 College of Surgeons. The following entry in the 

 diary of his wife shows that she also made light 

 of them for her husband's sake : — 



' Great trampling and rushing upstairs past 

 our bedroom door. Asked R. if the men were 

 dancing the polka on the stairs. He said "No ; 

 what you hear is the body being carried upstairs. 

 They are dissecting for fellowship to-day ! " R. en- 

 gaged with the dissectors.' 



In September we find that one of the aurochs 



