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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VI. 
munication to you is that the favour of the Crown 
may be the most worthily bestowed, and in the 
manner best calculated to encourage that devotion 
to science for which you are so eminently distin- 
guished. 
‘ I have the honour to be, Sir, 
‘ Y our obedient servant, 
‘ Robert Peel. 
‘ Professor Owen, F.R.S., &c.’ 
‘ As soon as R. had digested Sir Robert’s 
letter,’ Mrs. Owen writes, ‘he put on his boots 
again, and sallied forth to our good friend Justice 
Broderip, and found him just going to bed. 
‘ Mr. B. soon hurried on a dressing-gown, and 
they agreed as to the manner of an answer, and 
R. wrote it out when he came back. Before he 
left, some sherry was poured out on the ground by 
Mr. Broderip as a libation.’ 
'November 8. — A number of congratulatory 
letters. One from Lord Enniskillen and Sir 
Philip. Curious that they should even write in 
couples ! ’ 
Amongst these letters of congratulation there 
was one from Whewell, now Master of Trinity ; — 
‘ My dear Owen, — I was most glad to receive 
the intelligence which your letter of this morning 
contains. I hope the substantial part of the Pre- 
mier’s offer will do much, added to your other 
resources, to place you in a condition to pursue 
your researches at your ease ; and that the well- 
