i66 PROFESSOR OWEN CH. V. 
I was ever in. It was the residence of some 
officer of the Abbey [Glastonbury], and is nearly 
as old. It has a ghost, and Fielding wrote one 
of his novels there. Hereafter it will have 
geologists as pilgrims, for Hawkins has done 
some wonderful work in the way of disencum- 
bering the old Saurians of their stony shrouds. 
. . . From Sharpham I went to Lyme Regis, and 
there I met Buckland and Conybeare. They made 
me prisoner, and drove me off to Axminster, of 
which Conybeare is rector. Next day we had a 
geological excursion with Mary Anning, and had 
like to have been swamped with the tide. We 
were cut off from rounding a point, and had to 
scramble over the cliffs. 1 spent the next day in 
Miss Philpott’s museum ; then went to Char- 
mouth, and so returned to London. ... You 
may perhaps have heard something of my late 
discovery of a fossil monkey*’ in Norfolk.’ 
On November 28 Owen was back again in 
London. ‘ Willy is delighted to get his father 
back,’ the diary relates ; ‘ especially when he got 
his accustomed ride round the room.’ 
'■December i. — After breakfast R. and Mr. B.” 
sat in the back room with locked doors to keep 
* ‘ Description of the Jaw of to belong to a primitive ungu- 
the Fossil Macacus (Monkey) late, now claimed as one of the 
from Woodbridge,’ Mag. Nat. ancestors of the horse. 
Hist. This was afterwards ® J. S. Bowerbank. 
shown by Mr. Ed. Charlesworth 
