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extraordinary vocalist — two octaves clear and more. 
Captain Henry, her husband, plays the violoncello ; 
I take the flute. Lady H. the harp, and one of 
her daughters the piano. ... Too tired to write 
when I go to bed, and seldom awake earlier than 
in time for an hour’s work in the museum before 
breakfast. 1 1 is chiefly of fossils, several thousands, 
and some of them the finest in the world. I de- 
scribed one at the Geological Society last Wed- 
nesday night. . . . Lady H. and I have a joint 
memoir on another rarity for the Oxford Meeting 
[of the British Association].’ 
To this meeting Owen went a few days later. 
^Jime 23. — Prince C. L. Bonaparte called, 
and went with us to Paddington. Our party 
consisted besides of Professor Nilsson, of Lund, 
Sweden, Professor Eckart, of Christiania, Dr. 
Allman (Ireland), and Professor Ansted. We 
arrived at Oxford at half-past one. We took the 
proteus in a pickle-bottle, as Dr. Acland had 
asked us to do so, to compare it with hi-s. We 
had Lady Hastings’ crocodiles’ heads in a great 
basket carefully packed. Prince Charles Lucien 
took it on the seat with him in our fly, as there 
^as no other place to put it, and sat in the 
Seat with his back to the horses, with his arm 
embracing it. He has now grown a beard. Sir 
Robert Inglis had been very urgent about R. 
Coming to see him as soon as he arrived at the 
Vice-Chancellor’s. So R. having dropped the 
