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the body with an antiseptic composition and 
bandages.] Will you oblige us by giving us your 
opinion what we ought to charge ? We are 
entirely at a loss to know the value, with a family 
of such wealth, of our process. It has never 
been done in the West of England.’ 
From a memorandum on the letter, such as it 
was the custom of Professor Owen to make, we 
gather that he ‘recommended 105/.,’ a reply for 
which the firm ‘ sincerely thank ’ him. 
We then find Owen again attending Faraday’s 
lectures at the Royal Institution, as the following 
extract shows : — 
‘To Faraday’s lecture, which was interesting 
as usual. Saw Mr. Lyell, Sir Charles Lemon, &c. 
Mr. Guillemard was there, and was sleeping 
blissfully when Faraday began. He went on 
napping and bobbing his head till there was an 
experiment which made some little explosion, 
which woke him up with a start. He sat look- 
ing severely at Mr. Faraday for the rest of the 
lecture.’ 
‘ 25M. — Sir P. Egerton here. He said he 
Was very sorry not to have been in the House 
last night, as something was said by Wackley 
about pensions, and Sir Robert Peel answered it 
m a speech which was highly favourable to R.’ 
‘ 29M. — In looking over an artist’s drawing of 
3 - great fish’s skeleton in the library, R. noticed 
horse's teeth in some of the sketches ! ’ 
