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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VI. 
kind of velocipede chair. She is a most cheerful 
person, as you may well imagine when I tell you 
that she has saved some men’s lives during wrecks 
on the coast near her cottage. I was told that on 
stormy nights, when vessels are in danger, she 
has wheeled herself through the pelting rain or 
snow to the seaside, and animated the fishermen 
and others by her example and rewards to exer- 
tions, which otherwise they would have shrunk 
from, but without which the wrecked seamen must 
have perished. Her attractions to me were a fine 
collection of the bones from the cliffs and shingle, 
which she and a sister, now dead, occupied them- 
selves in collecting, and which is now the most 
instructive one in Norfolk.’ 
On October 24 Owen received a second speci- 
men of the pearly nautilus. It was sent by Cap- 
tain Belcher, and was in its original shell. This 
enabled him to verify his former observations 
on the subject. The ‘Nautilus pompilius’ was 
taken on the following evening to the Zoological 
Society. Captain Belcher also brought with him 
a babyroussa (a large species of hog from the 
Indian Archipelago). ‘ He says that on the 
voyage it ate up quantities of the men’s brass 
buttons and chin straps and is none the worse 
for it.’ 
An entry on October 30 gives an idea of the 
price of carriage at that time. A Lancaster friend 
intended to do Mrs. Owen a kindness by sending 
