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PROFESSOR OWEN 
« CH. VII. 
since written and sent to press No. 5 of “ Brit. 
Foss. Mammalia,” and am now engaged in 
completing my “Odontography.” I wish I could 
finish it before leaving London. To divert my 
thoughts and unbend the bow, I ran down to 
Dover last Friday by rail, and found dear Cary 
on the beach with Mrs. Soulby listening to the 
band, and Willie digging away in great force 
amongst the shingle. I stayed Saturday, Sunday, 
and Monday, and arrived here to-day about an 
hour ago.’ 
On August 24, 1844, ^ letter to his wife at 
Dover, we see Owen as the bachelor in charge : 
‘ I was with Hobhouse inspecting Whitechapel 
again on Thursday ; discussing Indian skulls to- 
day with little Schomburgk. Bottled off the 
Tinta yesterday ; three dozen and four bottles to 
my share. All the carpets are now up, and the 
charwoman comes on Monday.’ 
To his wife, still at Dover, Owen writes on 
September 16 a piteous appeal that she will inter- 
fere with his washerwoman, who hashad, ‘above 
a fortnight, a valuable assortment, without any 
symptoms of a return ; ’ and again, on September 1 9, 
he says: ‘Mrs. Wright has volunteered to go to 
the laundress’s this morning, being in a state of 
righteous indignation. Just as I had commenced 
my first cup [breakfast], solacing myself with a 
chapter on German poets, Mrs. Wright, in answer 
to a bell, entered with a gloomy, awe-struck expres- 
