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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. IV. 
Egerton’s rich collection, I may not again have so 
convenient an opportunity of devoting a few days 
to it as when passing so near his mansion in my 
journey south by the railroad. . . ‘I find my 
grandmother by father’s side lies buried in Wan- 
stead Church, Essex, in the vault of the Froysels, 
her family. She died a few hours after my father’s 
birth — very young. Some summer’s day we must 
make a holiday there, and I a pilgrimage to her 
early tomb.’ 
