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wall, and, resting under the shade of a tree, watched 

 the privileged crowd from a distance, and return- 

 ing to Paris solaced themselves with a dinner at 

 the ' Palais National ' and ' Le Prophete ' at the 

 Opera, and before going to bed relieved both 

 their minds by inditing somewhat strong letters 

 about their tickets to the Prefect. 



Next morning Owen went, with some of the 

 other jurymen, to a charcoal manufactory to in- 

 spect the furnaces, and gave the men a sovereign 

 to drink the success of their master, who had won 

 a medal at the Exhibition. Returning to Paris, he 

 went to the Jardin des Plantes, * and gave a long 

 lecture to a large party, all full of indignation at 

 their treatment at St. Cloud.' This indignation, 

 Owen tells us, arose in the following manner : 

 1 Ddjeuner was served in the Orangerie. The 

 moment the doors were opened the military rushed 

 in and occupied all the seats, drank all the cham- 

 pagne and ate all the fowls, and left the ladies 

 dying with thirst and hunger outside.' 



On another day he saw a review in the Champ 

 de Mars, for which he was accommodated with a 

 place in the President's ' tribune,' and about this 

 review he sent a twelve-page letter to his son. 



As chairman of the jury on ' The Raw Materials 

 and Produce of the Animal Kingdom,' he ulti- 

 mately published an elaborate report of their 

 awards, and, after his work as juror was completed, 

 delivered an address, at the request of Prince 



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