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the chair. Duke of Argyll, Bishop of London, 

 Dean Milman, Baron Van de Weyer, Pemberton 

 Legh, Dundas (who used to go Northera 

 Circuit), Dr. Holland. Hallam said that Hall's 

 famous sermon on Princess Charlotte was copied 

 from, or founded on, one of Burnet's on a daughter 

 of Louis XIV. The Duke of Argyll, a propos of 

 monomaniacs, related an anecdote of a Highland 

 gentleman he visited, who insisted on walking 

 backwards as he showed him to his sleeping-room ; 

 also an anecdote of a worthy Scotch judge, who 

 travelling by rail at the time of the Great 

 Assembly, and finding himself at the place where 

 the train stopped for dinner with a number of 

 Scotch " meenisters," was asked by them to say 

 grace, he being taken for the oldest and most 

 reverend ; and thereupon he rose and, beginning 

 a grace in Gaelic, continued it till the bell rang for 

 the continuation of the journey.' 



The Hunterian Lectures given this season by 

 Owen were on the ' Anatomy of Fishes.' He 

 notes in his diary that during this course of 

 lectures Hallam was again a constant attendant. 



A considerable part of this year was spent by 

 Owen in ' directing and selecting the restorations 

 of the megatherium and other extinct animals in 

 the geological section of the grounds of the Crystal 

 Palace at Sydenham.' 



In the address of the Chairman of the Crystal 

 Palace Company to the Queen the following 



