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house-tops — a very singular part of the scene.' 

 The day after he was dining with Hay Cameron, 

 a fellow-commissioner with Macaulay in the East 

 Indies, and a great-grandson of the head of the 

 clan that marched with Prince Charlie to Derby 

 in '45. ' By the way,' he says, ' he showed me 

 an original miniature of the " Prince " which the 

 latter gave to his ancestor at their first leave- 

 taking. The poet Henry Taylor (Van Artevelde) 

 and Lord Wrottesley were of the party.' 



In reference to the death of the Duke of 

 Wellington, Professor Owen wrote on November 

 13, 1852, to Mr. Thomas Poyser, of Wirks- 

 worth : — 



' I have been particularly favoured in respect 

 of the remarkable solemnities in honour of the 

 memory of the great Duke. The present amiable 

 inheritor of the title called on me last Wednesday 

 to request that I would call on him to see the cast 

 that had been taken after the Duke's demise, and 

 give some advice to a sculptor who is restoring 

 the features in a bust, intending to show the noble 

 countenance as in the last years of the Duke's life. 

 It is a most extraordinary cast. It appears that 

 the Duke had lost all his teeth, and the natural 

 prominence of the chin and nose much exaggerates 

 the intermediate space caused by the absorption of 

 the alveoli. 3 He of course wore a complete set 



3 There follows a little sketch of the cast. 



