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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VII. 
On this visit to Ireland Owen visited Water- 
ford, the Groves of Blarney, Killarney, Glengariff, 
Dublin, and returned to London by way of 
Bristol, Gloucester, and Derby ; but the whole of 
his letters written during this tour are devoted to 
the beauties of the scenery through which he was 
passing. Before returning home he visited Lord 
Rosse at Liverpool, and writes thus to Mr. Clift, 
September 3 : — 
‘ You may imagine a man with a natural turn 
for mechanics with ample means of indulging in it. 
He has not only planned and manufactured, chiefly 
with his own hands, his stupendous telescope, but 
also most of the tools and machinery required 
for making it. He married, wisely, a lady of 
congenial taste, the daughter of a civil engi- 
neer, and, ’tis said, a better mathematician than 
himself ... I spent a week at Killarney and 
the picturesque neighbourhood with Murchison, 
Phillips, Mr. Fox of Falmouth, and Forbes.’ 
Owen then joined his wife, who was staying 
at Derby, and after spending a fortnight there 
returned to his work at the College of Surgeons. 
In September, Owen sent to the Rev. J. 
Rowley, his godfather and former headmaster, a 
copy of the first series of his Hunterian Lectures 
(1837-1842), which had been published from notes 
taken by William White Cooper and revised by 
himself In Mr. Rowley’s letter of acknowledg- 
ment, dated from Lancaster, September 4, 1843, 
