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some that more need them, or of accompanying a 

 foreign anatomical friend, on the only day I have 

 at liberty, who might come to London. 



' In general, when a town resident's income 

 equals or exceeds my own, I urge him to join with 

 me in helping on the good work of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society.' 



The following extracts are taken from Mrs, 

 Owen's journal kept in 1853 : — 



' j T tdy 11. — Went with R. to see the Aztecs 

 at Hanover Square Rooms. Two most extra- 

 ordinary dwarf children from Peru, whose minds 

 seem to go no further than those of ordinary 

 children of two or three years old. These were 

 given out to be about fifteen. I soon attracted 

 the attention of the boy by drawing objects he was 

 likely to know on a piece of paper. He recog- 

 nised a duck at once, pointing and nodding his 

 head. A cat was not so familiar. They are very 

 strange beings, and their proprietor seems to be 

 making money.' 



1 August 4. — R. and I to Windsor to see the 

 troops reviewed by the Queen in person. Her 

 Majesty rode a black horse and had on a dark 

 blue habit with gold trimming across the breast, 

 like a general officer, and a pretty little hat with a 

 white and red plume. She returned salutes in 



6 Not long after this visit the Aztec Race, followed by a De- 

 Owen contributed to the Ethnol. scription of the so-called Aztec 

 Soc. Joicrnal 'A Brief Notice of Children exhibited in 1853.' 



