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and part of September in taking a thorough 

 rest. 



Just before starting for Scotland (July 24), 

 1 the skeleton of the great chimpanzee arrived, 

 sent by Captain Harris. It is the first full-grown 

 skeleton ever brought to England. I am thank- 

 ful it did arrive before we started, for otherwise 

 R. would have inevitably turned back to open 

 the box.' 



After visiting Edinburgh, Lancaster, Derby, 

 and other places, they returned home on Sep- 

 tember 1 9. On the following day * there arrived 

 a precious volume for R.'s inspection — the ori- 

 ginal MS. of "Waverley," mislaid so long by 

 Sir Walter Scott. There was a letter from 

 Lockhart with it to vouch for its authenticity. 

 R. was luckily able to spend some time over it 

 before it had to be sent to the Advocates' Library 

 in Edinburgh.' 



On September 28 an amusing caricature ap- 

 peared in ' Punch ' — a night at the Royal Insti- 

 tution, Owen lecturing. ' The diagrams very 

 well done,' he remarks, ' and the picture is really 

 very clever.' 



This month a new polar bear was added to 

 the Zoological Gardens. ' R. went at 2 o'clock to 

 the Gardens, just in time to see the new polar bear 

 turned out of his barrel (he was brought over in 

 a barrel and had been cooped up for weeks) into 

 the residence of the female polar bear. She 



