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hands of Erxleben and Lens Aldous. ‘ The 
wonder is, as he himself would frequendy remark, 
‘ that he had any eyesight left at all.’ But even 
to extreme old age it was exceedingly good, 
except that he could never endure a bright light 
of any sort. 
After finishing Part I. of the ‘ Odontography,’ 
he was so much interested in the subject that he 
immediately started on Part II. in spite of his 
other work. Writing a short note to his wife 
(September 23, 1840), he says: ‘ My hands will 
be pretty full, with Catalogue, geological papers, 
and Part II. of my “ Odontography.” ’ The end 
of September and beginning of October Owen 
was at home, and his wife mentions how he 
met Guizot at the Zoological Gardens, thus 
describing the PTench Ambassador : ‘ He looks 
a plain, business-like old man, but very keen- 
looking, his thumbs stuck in his waistcoat sleeve- 
holes {d rAnglaise, as they call it). Richard after- 
wards dined at the Athenmum, and he told me 
that he had mentioned the little waterworms that 
I first noticed whilst looking attentively into our 
glass globe. He said that nobody seemed to 
know them. In examining them under the 
rnicroscope we saw three blood canals and an 
alimentary canal. They are in incessant motion, 
and work in an oblong hole, from which about 
half their body emerges, throwing up a rampart 
of earth round them of a regular form.’ 
