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in the morning, and came down to Sheen Lodge 

 about an hour later in order to breakfast with 

 Professor Owen. The Emperor, who was much 

 interested in scientific questions, stayed some time 

 looking at the Professor's collections of different 

 curiosities, greatly admiring the garden and the 

 beautiful trees in it. Some years previously 

 when the Emperor came over to England he 

 had paid Owen a similar visit. 



It was rarely that Owen omitted to date his 

 letters ; but about this time he wrote an undated 

 letter to Dr. Milroy, in which he says : * You have 

 done good work in the thorough investigation of 

 leprosy, and I trust you may be spared to receive 

 evidence of the predicted results of the more 

 rational treatment of the afflicted ones. 



' In my less practical or applicable labours, I 

 have to report that the " Researches on the Fossil 

 Mammalia of Australia," 2 vols. 4to, are now in 

 the binder's hands. 



' This being issued, I push on to completion a 

 similar series of researches on the " Fossil Birds 

 of New Zealand" (this with 150 plates, the other 

 130). But then there remains the completion 

 of a greater work (already partially issued), " On 

 the Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain." Will my 

 old cephalo-thoracic mucous tract outlast that 

 labour ? ' 6 



6 The two volumes relating land to which Owen refers in 

 to the fossil birds of New Zea- this letter consisted of separate 



