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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V. 
in order to make his final notes on the remains 
there preserved, and also visited Lyme Regis, 
and the quarries at Street, in Somersetshire. He 
writes to his wife from Bristol on August 21, from 
the ‘ White Lion,’ Broad Street, ‘ with a coffee- 
room pen ’ ‘ After a tedious passage of more 
than thirty hours (instead of twenty) I arrived 
here this afternoon at four.’ He then says he is 
leaving for Street and Lyme Regis, and hopes to 
return to London by Friday morning. Referring 
to Bristol, he says : ‘ I posted out on a voyage of 
discovery to the Philosophical Institution. . . . 
The old man [Stutchbury] was out, but expected 
in soon. So I asked for the museum and busied 
myself with notes on Sauria till he arrived. His 
first exclamation was characteristic; “Well, I’ve 
heard and read a deal about you, let s see what 
you’re like ; ” and he brought me by both 
shoulders to the window and scrutinised accord- 
ingly. I stayed with him till eight, chiefly in the 
museum, where I saw all I wanted. . . . T. he 
Avon near Bristol, or I should say Clifton, is 
equal to the best Rhine scenery.’ 
Owen reached Birmingham on August 27, 
1839, and stayed with his old friend Middlemore 
at 23 Temple Row. He contracted a severe 
chill on his journey there, however, and ‘ went to 
bed early, took, by my host’s advice, some colchi- 
cum and opium, and had a better night. . . . 
Have been honoured with an invitation to dinner 
