1846-47 ROAST OSTRICH 295 
< 237V. — R. had a very bad night. Query, 
roast ostrich ? At lour o clock he called on Sir 
Robert Peel, who gave him a card for me to 
view the pictures at Whitehall Place. 
‘ 26M. The proteus still alive. Gave him an 
earthworm ; would not touch it. Tried some 
spawn, but with the same result. 
‘ May I. — R.’s twenty-fourth and last lecture. 
We hurried off as soon as we could to the Royal 
Academy, so as to get a look at the pictures 
before dinner.’ 
‘ 2nd. — R. took one more look at the nar- 
whal’s head. I feel very savage with the College 
Council. They will not buy the head. If I were 
sure it would go to the British Museum I should 
not mind so much ; it seems a shame to let it go 
out of the country.’ 
< 6/A Dr. H. Acland told R. that his proteus 
(not the same species as ours) only ate a worm 
about once a fortnight.’ 
■ — Lady Hastings here with the Hordle 
crocodile, which she has pieced together admi- 
rably. She was busy in the museum for over tw^o 
hours, glorying over her bones. 
‘ g^/2. — The worm I put into the vessel with 
the proteus the other morning has now been 
eaten.’ 
< 237'^/.— R. and I to the Gardens, according to 
a request from Sir Roderick Murchison, as the 
Grand Duke Constantine was to be theie. The 
