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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VI. 
worshipped at home amongst the Friends, for, 
though she is Elizabeth Fry, she is still human. 
She promised to give Willy a book of texts of 
her own compiling.’ 
On January 31, Owen went with Conybeare 
to help to receive Prince Albert and the King of 
Prussia at the Royal Society. 
Owen was at this time occupied in preparing his 
course of Hunterian Lectures, which was to con- 
clude the series begun by him in 1837. Speaking 
on the subject of this concluding course, he says ; 
‘ I intend this year to lecture on the Comparative 
Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System, 
and this will terminate the series which I began 
in 1837.’ 
In giving a short review of his former lectures, 
when the course for this year was concluded, he 
adds : — 
‘ I have the pleasure to see the friendly 
countenances of some here present who have 
patiently listened to the whole of this series of 
lectures, and who may have discerned in it, not- 
withstanding the long and frequent intervals, the 
characters of a single and connected scheme of 
instruction in Comparative Anatomy and Physio- 
logy.’ He then expressed his great regret that 
the ‘ tenants of the gallery,’ to whom he was 
most anxious to impart instruction, were only able 
“ The gallery of the theatre body of the theatre to the Coun- 
was devoted to students ; the cil and members of the College. 
