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at all, had the numerous valuable specimens sent 
to him as the only person generally known at the 
time as at all interested in the subject. They are 
now in the museum cubes, and it is the reopening 
of the museum which has occasioned R. to bring 
them out of their hiding-places. He thinks the 
collection will considerably surprise the scientific 
world when it is once more available. To-day 
R. got the first volume of “Hunter” by Palmer.’^ 
‘ ^th . — The museum in good order for the visit 
of the Trustees. The fossils and shells which R. 
has put in the flat cases have a very fine effect, 
and the way in which he has contrived the sup- 
ports in the side cases is quite successful. They 
interfere as little as can be with the skeletons. 
The Trustees greatly admired the arrangements.’ 
‘ Mat'-ck 22. — R. went out late to the 
Geological Society ; a dismal, cold, and snowy 
evening. He has been writing a paper on the 
Toxodon, brought by Mr. Darwin, to be read 
there, but not to-night.’ 
'April ir. — Dr. A. Farre and Mr. Darwin 
here this afternoon. After tea muscular fibre and 
microscope in the drawing-room.’ 
‘ 19/i. — R. wrote the latter part of his third 
lecture and read it to me. He received to-day 
as a present from Agassiz his plates of fossil 
fish.’ 
’ The Works of John Hunter^ by James F. Palmer. 2 vols. 
8vo., London, 1835. 
