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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. III. 
You will observe how ill this is written, owinsf to 
the unsteadiness in my right hand, but we must 
submit to the approach of age ; therefore, my dear 
Richard must not expect many letters from me. 
Y our sisters will w^ite by every opportunity, 
and I hope you will do the same.’ On July 
20, 1835, his birthday, the event took place to 
which he had so long looked forward, his marriage 
with Miss Clift.® It was a very quiet wedding, 
and is thus described in the diary: — ‘July 20. — 
Richard Owen and I, my father and Harriet 
Sheppard, were in the new St. Pancras Church, 
Euston Square, by half-past eight o’clock. The Rev. 
Mr. Laing came immediately after we got into the 
vestry, and, Caroline Clift having been lost on the 
road, Mrs. Richard Owen returned to breakfast at 
No. 1 Euston Grove M after which my husband, 
my mother, and I set off to Oxford. On the way 
we left my mother to return to town by the same 
post chariot which took us, as we changed it there 
for another. W e then posted on till we arrived at 
Oxford in time for a late dinner. We left London 
at 10.30 A.M.’ 
Later in this year an important microscopic 
discovery was made by Owen — although at first it 
seemed merely a curiosity of science. Mr. Wormald, 
^ The marriage certificate the presence of William Clift 
states that Richard Owen, of the and Harriet Sheppard, 
parish of St. Clement Danes, * The residence at that time 
was married to Caroline Clift, of of Mr. and Mrs. Clift, 
the parish of St. Pancras, in 
