382 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. xn. 



CHAPTER XII 



1852-54 



Delight in Country Life — Hunterian Lectures, 1852 — Landseer, 

 Mulready, Fanny Kemble, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens 

 — Love of Fishing — Dinner in the Iguanodon, 1853 — Literary 

 and Scientific Work, 1854. 



By the end of May 1852 Owen had settled 

 down in the house in Richmond Park, and the 

 delight with which he always contemplated his 

 surroundings there had already been felt by him. 

 Writing to his sister Kate on the 20th of that 

 month, he says : ' The van-loads of heavy goods 

 travelled safely (and in fine weather, which is a 

 great matter) to the cottage on Saturday, where 

 we all slept, and Will and I made our first ap- 

 pearance at Mortlake Church on Sunday. . . . 

 We felt like "jolly squatters " yesterday, but shall 

 be shaken into some shape by the end of a week. 

 Poor Carry compared herself to an overboiled 

 chicken when she woke after the fatigues of the 

 first day's move. I was awoke at three o'clock on 

 Sunday morning by a concert of a very unusual 

 kind to my ears, and, tempted by the unwonted 



