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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V. 
she too may prove the mother of as good, if not 
as great a man, is the fervent prayer of her 
affectionate husband, 
‘ Richard Owen.’ 
I n a postscript to this letter he writes : ‘ On a 
wooden tablet which records Harvey’s bene- 
factions to his native place — the Church Ward- 
ens have had the grace to say, in a parenthesis 
“(he found out the circulation of blood.)” . . . 
I proceed now to discuss a goblet of brandy and 
water for the good of the house, and a pipe of 
tobacco for my own benefit.’ 
In this month Part I. of the ‘ Report of British 
Fossil Reptiles’ was finished. Sir P. de Grey 
Egerton writes from Oulton Park on the sub- 
iect : — 
Sir Philip Egerton to R. Owen 
October 26, 1840. 
‘ My dear Owen, — . . . I have just completed 
the perusal of your first report [“ British Fossil 
Reptiles ”], which is glorious. I feel perfectly sure 
that the terms in which that report is spoken of 
by those with whom I have conversed, and who 
are more competent than I am to value its merits, 
and the public mention of it at Glasgow, in the 
secretaries’ report and elsewhere, must be most 
