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had missed their train. Cooke has all the en- 

 thusiasm of a child over the trees, shrubs, and 

 flowers in the garden. Landseer enjoyed them 

 as much, but was quieter. They were never 

 tired of looking at the pictures in the dining- 

 room, but had to go off early to a dinner of 

 Academicians at the Star and Garter.' 



On July 16 Owen started for Paris in order 

 to perform much the same services for the Uni- 

 versal Exhibition of 1855 as he had done for the 

 Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. On the 

 resignation of Prince C. L. Bonaparte he was 

 appointed Chairman of the Jury (XI.) on 'Pre- 

 pared and Preserved Alimentary Substances.' 

 This, of course, included wines. Some half-dozen 

 of his letters are preserved, but as the proceed- 

 ings are somewhat similar to those described at 

 the time of the Great Exhibition the following 

 extracts may suffice : — 



'July 18, 1855. — I have attended a meeting 

 of the Institute, and, oddly enough, the learned 

 body was engaged in discussing my merits, 

 amongst others, relative to a vacancy in the list 

 of eight foreign members. At present, I am 

 a " corresponding member " only, like Lord 

 Brougham, Brewster, &c.' 



'July 27, 1855. — [Milne Edwards] lives now 

 in Cuvier's old house, and many pleasing recollec- 

 tions and associations arose on entering the well- 

 known door. The general arrangement of the 



