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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VI. 
the chairman, Whewell, and I, on three raised 
state-seats at the head — we were greeted and com- 
plimented in a truly English and manly manner 
by the ablest men to whom the proposing of the 
toasts had been assigned. My duties were, besides 
acknowledging my own toast, the proposing the 
Lancaster Philosophical Society and returning 
thanks for your health, which was proposed with 
Mrs. Whewell’s in a very neat speech by Mr. 
Hornby. Lord Derby sent a fine haunch of 
venison and a very kind letter, which Mr. Hornbyj 
his nephew, read, in which Lord Derby regretted 
that his malady prevented his taking the chair to 
join in doing honour to Whewell, with whom he 
was not personallyacquainted, and to Owen, whom 
he had had the pleasure to call his friend for some 
years past.' 
On September 19 Owen was back again in 
London, and soon after had a visit from H. Milne- 
Edwards, whom he had already met when visiting 
Paris in 1830. M. Milne-Edwards was accom- 
panied by his pupil, E. Blanchard. Dr. Martin 
Barry was one of the party, and he brought Owen 
some letters he had received from certain scientists 
who had formerly opposed his (Barry’s) views as 
to the double spiral in muscles, and who were now 
writing to him to acknowledge their acceptance. 
As Owen had always upheld Barry’s ideas on the 
subject, the latter was anxious that he should see 
the letters. About the middle of October, Owen 
