1846-47 
AT DR. PUSEY’S 
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gown. After the breakfnst shw Mr. C. Darwin 
in the Zoological Section. We then made up a 
party to go up the river. We hired two boats. 
In ours, besides ourselves, were Mr. Darwin, 
Mr. Hill, and Professor Langberg, from Norway. 
In the other boat were Dr. and Mrs. Acland, Dr. 
Hooker, and Ehrenberg. We raced for some way, 
and landed at the bridge. On Sunday R. got up 
to early chapel. After breakfast went to St. Mary s, 
and by a curious coincidence the annual sermon 
was on the “ Pride of Knowledge.” The Bishop 
of Oxford, however, gave a very fine sermon- 
On Monday Prince Albert came, and spent some 
time with the Duke of Saxe- Weimar at the 
Zoological Section. In the evening R. and I 
dined at the Bishop’s palace. The Bishop was 
most kind and hospitable, and we were all very 
merry at table. Frank Buckland afterwards 
favoured us with a solo on the French horn. 
The Bishop picked some beautiful roses for us to 
take back.’ 
Owen writes to his sister Maria from Dr. 
Pusey’s, Christ Church, Oxford, on June 26; 
‘ Cary and I have enjoyed ourselves extremely- 
We are master and mistress, after a fashion, of 
this house, the Doctor having fled, and liberally 
left it for the savans. Cary presided at one end 
of a breakfast-table this morning at which sat 
Ehrenberg, Nilsson, Milne-Edwards, Van der 
Hoeven, and other distingui.shed foreigners ; Sir 
