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given away to the students. The Professor of 
each different subject made a speech (long or short 
as the case might be) in introducing their prize- 
man to the President. R. O., as Professor of Com- 
parative Anatomy, said a few words to the point 
in bringing forward the young man who gained 
the prize on that subject.’ There is a footnote 
here in Professor Owen’s handwriting stating the 
man to be William White Cooper. 
About this time Owen gave up his lodgings 
in Symond’s Inn, and moved to apartments 
provided for his use at the College of Surgeons, 
which he was now making ready to receive his 
future wife in two months’ time. ‘ On leaving 
the hospital,’ Miss Clift continues, ‘ R. O. took us 
to his house, where he regaled us with ices and 
claret and cakes. We visited every part of the 
house, and looked into the new part of the museum. 
I was agreeably surprised at the size of the rooms 
and the comfort of the kitchens, but the upstairs 
is most inconvenient. It proved a wet afternoon, 
so we came home in a coach from the house, 
leaving R. O. to go to the great dinner of the 
Governors.’ 
It is not to be wondered at that his mother 
writes about this time to ‘ R. O. : ’ ‘You are daily 
in my thoughts, as from your letters I cannot help 
thinking that you are about to be married, and I 
hope happily so ; from all that I have heard of the 
young lady, there is, I think, every prospect of it. 
