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out ; then drawn, cast, and coloured, and then to 
make some sections. R. delighted with them. 
‘ \oth. — R. not well, so he lay on the sofa with 
his fossil heads about him, whilst I wrote from 
his dictation. Mr. Edw. Forbes came in to 
name Mr. Green’s fossils, and smoked a cigar 
which R. keeps in the Australian skull — the one 
which the natives used for carrying water, and 
has a band of dried grass attached to it for the 
purpose of carrying. 
‘ Mr. Scharf all this time in the library drawing 
the glyptodon’s skull.’ 
‘ — At Sir Robert Peel’s, Drayton Manor, 
on Saturday, 14th. Bishop of Chichester, Mr. 
Wheatstone, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Mr. Stephenson,'^ 
&c. Saw the business of the Commission (Health 
of Towns) brought to light there. Sir Robert had 
his tenants to dinner to meet the scientific gentle- 
men, in order to discuss some matters of agriculture. 
In a letter to his sister Maria, written from 
Drayton Manor, December 16, 1844, Owen gives 
an account of his visit, and tells the following 
anecdote of the Bishop of Oxford (Richard 
Bagot) on the occasion of the investiture of Louis 
Philippe with the Order of the Garter : ‘ On 
that day, after dinner, at Windsor Castle, the 
King of the French sent his regards to the Bishop) 
who approached him, when the King of the 
French said ; “ Sir, I was much moved by the 
® Robert Stephenson, the civil engineer. 
