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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V. 
letter written to his wife from York, dated Tues- 
day, August 4, 1 840 : — 
‘ Since I left you I have gone over more 
ground than I ever did in my life before in the 
same time. I'hanks to my experienced fellow- 
traveller [Lord Enniskillen], no time has been 
lost. From Derby, yesterday morning, we visited 
Loughboro’, Barrow-on-Soar, Leicester, Notting- 
ham, and returned to Derby to dinner. You may 
imagine that such a day, after a preceding night’s 
steaming from London, disposed us both for bed 
soon after dinner was over. This morning we rose 
at five, and journeyed by railway to York, where 
we arrived to breakfast at eleven, after a ride of 
ninety odd miles. Since then we have been spend- 
ing some hours in the museum, and have visited 
the Minster Hitherto, I have been dis- 
appointed of Saurians ; the museums at Leicester 
and Nottingham were crowded with visitors — 
working classes. Never saw a better exi^eriment 
of the amount of danger to be apprehended from 
indiscriminate admission of English canaille, and, 
so far as we saw and heard, quite successful. All 
very orderly and all paws off ; but I found myself • 
the centre of a group wherever I had to take 
notes of a fossil specimen. To-morrow we start 
for Scarboro’. We have had lovely weather, and 
gone most of our journeys by railways. Along that 
from Derby to Y ork there are divers tunnels — 
“antres vastes.” A party of men at work in one 
