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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. IX. 
taken by William White Cooper, as were other 
courses of Owen’s Hunterian Lectures. 
‘ February t 6 . — ^Found the cook had a queer- 
looking bit of fish, which R. had brought in and 
told her to cook for dinner. There was only 
part of it in the kitchen, and I did not recognise 
it. The cook’s chief objection seemed to be the 
name {Anarrhichas luptcs) which her master had 
called it, and she was doubtful if a fish with such 
a name cotdd be a fit thing to send up to table. 
It turned out to be what they call a “wolf-fish,” 
and R. declared it was not at all bad.’ 
^ March lo. — Meeting at Downing Street, at 
Lord John Russell’s, consisting of Sir Roderick 
Murchison, Bishop of Norwich, Sir P. Egerton, 
and Richard, to discuss plans for a British 
Museum of Natural History.’ 
‘ \(>th . — Meeting at the College to-day. 
Proposed to erect a statue of John Hunter in 
Westminster Abbey. Dr. Buckland is quite 
willing to find space, if they settle that it should 
be erected there.’ 
A\st . — A proteus in a black bottle left here 
for R., who had gone to Mincing Lane to see a 
narwhal’s head with two large tusks. No de- 
ception this time. The tusks both turn the same 
way.’ 
‘ 22nd . — To luncheon at Dean Buckland’s. A 
piece of roast ostrich, which we all tasted ; it wa^ 
very much like a bit of coarse turkey.’ 
