PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VI. 
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Better after dinner, and went to work on a proof 
— Marsupials.’ 
‘ 15^'//. — Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte 
here with one of his boys. I never saw a better 
expression on anyone’s face than on that lad’s. 
He listened most attentively to his father’s con- 
versation with R. The Prince is now very stout, 
but has very good features and eyes, and when 
the pleasant smile and eagerness fades from his 
face he looks very Bonapartish. He told me 
that this was his birthday, and that he was now 
thirty-eight.’ 
^ i-jth. — Lieut. - Colonel Charles Hamilton 
Smith invited R. to stay with him at Plymouth. 
It so happens that I know him, for he used to be 
much at the Cuviers when my father and I were 
in Paris.’ 
Owen also refers to this invitation in writing 
at this time to one of his sisters ; ‘ Cary and I, 
who have not journeyed together for a long time, 
have accepted a kind invitation from Colonel 
Hamilton Smith to spend the “ Association 
Week” at Plymouth with him. He is a widower 
with daughters. We then think of visiting Mr. 
Clift’s county, Cornwall. We may perhaps spend 
a few days with Sir Thomas Acland, whom I met 
at breakfast at Sir Robert Inglis’s the other 
morning, and who kindly proposed it.’ Owen 
then, in answer to a question of his sister’s, ‘ Why 
the sea is salt,’ says he will ask Whewell when he 
