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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V. 
‘ October 8. — At R.’s desire, in the Gardens 
to-day, the monkeys and the elephants were 
let out to enjoy the sunshine long before the 
general time, two o’clock. I have long tried to 
get some one to see to this, as many of the 
animals would be the better for it.’ 
On October 14, 1840, Owen wrote to his 
wife from Hythe : ‘ I arrived safely at Hythe, 
and have been most kindly received and hos- 
pitably treated by Mr. Makeson [Mackeson] and 
his four accomplished daughters and one son ; 
they sent for a violoncello last night, and w'e had 
a Beethoven and a Hummel. This morning I 
was at work two or three hours at the great 
Reptile. It is not Igtianodon, but a kind of huge 
crocodile.^ . . . To-morrow I ride over to Folke- 
stone, and Friday I proceed to Hastings, and 
thence to Mr. Dixon’s " at Worthing.’ 
On October 18, 1840, after describing to his 
wife the journey by mail-cart from Hythe 
through Romney, Rye, Winchelsea, and over 
Fairlight Down, he writes from the Royal Oak 
Hotel, Hastings : ‘ I shall thus have but one day 
for fossilising with Mr. Dixon, my geological 
invitor to Worthing, for I must be in London to 
preside at the Microscopical on Wednesday 
evening, having the prefatory history of the 
Society — part of which I have written — and all 
■' Dinodoctis niachesoni. 
^ Author of The Geology of Sussex, 1850. 
