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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. IV. 
subject continued to deliver them up to 1855. 
He further adopted the practice of printing a 
synopsis of each course, and a glance at a complete 
series of these summaries gives us a means of es- 
timating the extent of scientific information com- 
municated by Owen to the students during his 
Professorship. 
In this year (1837) he also edited ‘Hunter’s 
Animal Economy.’ He sent a copy of this work 
to Whewell, his old schoolfellow and fellow-towns- 
man (who afterwards became the well-known 
Master of Trinity), and received the following 
reply : — 
‘ I was much pleased to receive your letter 
and to find that you are about to publish Hunter’s 
works I have always been afraid of 
Physiology as a branch of my undertaking. I do 
not see how I can avoid taking some notice of 
it when I complete my Philosophy, for it is the 
subject of the greatest promise and the deepest 
interest of the whole of science ; but how I am to 
arrange the principles of four great writers and 
penetrate their true character I do not know. 
The mere task of reading them is formid- 
able. . . .’ 
Whewell then adds this protest in a post- 
script : — 
‘ By the way, it is a great shame that you, an 
old fellow-townsman, persist in making my name 
more formidable than it really is by writing it 
