182 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. VI. 



Sir Roderick Murchison wrote the following 

 letter to Owen on the subject of an article which 

 appeared in the * Pall Mall Gazette : ' — 



Sir R. Murchison to R. Owen 



November 3, 1867. 



' My dear Owen, — I see by the second article 

 signed " C." [or " O." ?] (Saturdays paper) in the 

 " Pall Mall " that the writer is taking a line which, 

 if it succeeded, would quite suit my book — viz. that 

 the colossal Greek and Egyptian statues should be 

 united with the old pictures of the best masters 

 in the National Exhibition. This is just the 

 moment to show that Nature's products can well 

 fill the whole of the British Museum around the 

 Great Library. 



' This arrangement would be peculiarly gratify- 

 ing to Cockney dom y provided it be decided that 

 the Parliament will not pay for the grand exten- 

 sion in situ Bloomsberiano which would be 

 required. 



' You will best know how to deal with the 

 suggestion of exhibiting types only. 



' But whoever he is, the author seems to have 

 his line distinctly marked out. 



' When he has done his best, I hope you will 

 try your hand. 



' Yours sincerely, 



1 Roderick I. Murchison.' 



