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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. IX. 
Grand Duke speaks English well. He was greatly 
pleased with the bears. The elephant ill. The 
rhinoceros was in the water, looking self-satisfied, 
and like a clumsy model of a creature in mud.’ 
‘■Jiine 7. — Mr. Mitchell called about the 
elephant. Dead. R. sent some College students 
to take out the elephant’s brain, but they found it 
too difficult.’ 
‘ '^th . — Pouring wet. R. went off to the 
Gardens before seven. Came back with his hand 
injured in getting the brain out. The skull was 
sawn, and the splinters got into his hand as he 
was drawing the brain out.’ 
\oth . — Grand Duke Constantine here. R. 
went round the museum with him. He stayed an 
hour and a half, and seemed greatly pleased.’ 
‘ iith . — The presence of a portion of the de- 
funct elephant on the premises made me keep 
all the windows open, especially as the weather is 
very mild. I got R. to smoke cigars all over the 
house.’ 
15M. — New Zealand paper sent by Mr. 
Parish, with cuts of a head which was found by 
natives in a river there and supposed to be a myste- 
rious fierce something. R. says from what he can 
make of the woodcuts he has little doubt but that 
it was a calfs head.’ 
On June 19 Owen paid a visit to Lady Has- 
tings at Lymington. Writing to his sister Kate 
(June 21, 1847), he says ; ‘The Marchioness is an 
