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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. I. 
ber 13, 1823, to James Stockdale Harrison, 
‘ Surgeon and Apothecary.’ 
There is appended to the indenture to Seed a 
certificate in Joseph Seed’s handwriting which 
reads as follows : 
‘ Mr. Richard Owen became my pupil in conse- 
quence of the death of Mr. Dixon [w], the gentle- 
man to whom he was an apprentice. From the 
circumstance of myself being called upon by the 
Service to which I belong, I had him transferred 
to my respected friend Mr. J. Harrison, of this 
town. 
‘ Mr. Owen’s general conduct during the time 
he was with me has my highest commendation, 
and at all times I shall be happy to bear testimony 
to his most deserving merit, as well as to his res- 
pectability. 
‘ J. Seed, 
‘ Surgeon Royal Navy.’ 
Lancaster, January 10, 1827. 
During Richard Owen’s apprenticeship at 
Lancaster, two adventures befell him which he 
often related. They are given in his own words ; ® 
but they necessarily suffer by the change from 
spoken to written language. They lose his own 
indescribable manner of telling a good story, 
especially when relating his own experiences, 
“ The substance of these to Hood^s Magazine, vol. ii., 
two ghost stories was contri- 1844, p. 442, and vol. iii., 1845, 
buted by the Professor himself p. 294. 
