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PROFESSOR OWEN 



ch. x. 



what do you suppose ? — a mysterious bit of sheet- 

 lead, of which I send you a rough sketch. 





OPEN 





ED 





IN 1804 



BY 



R. C. H. 



' Buckland was very great at Stonehenge, and 

 narrowly escaped having to fight a duel with the 

 son of a Mr. Somebody, who, the Dean said, had 

 written a book to prove that the architect of the 

 mysterious ruin was Cain, and had dedicated 

 the book to him to buy his acquiescence in the 

 theory. ... I both amused and edified myself 

 during the locomotive parts of my trip with 

 studying " Parthenogenesis " and the " Nature of 

 Limbs." I recommended the perusal of them to 

 old Sedgwick.' 



In September, Owen suffered another loss in 

 the death of his old friend Frederick Dixon, of 

 Worthing, at whose house he had spent so many 

 happy days. Owen was with him at the time. 

 The value which he set on Dixon's friendship is 

 evident from a letter to his wife, in which he says: 

 ' There was a genuine goodness in poor Dixon that 

 makes me feel bereaved of a true friend, and in 

 many difficulties, though small perhaps, always the 

 best adviser about College and other such matters,. 



