PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. X. 
be had, but we are creatures of habit ; the 
longing for the wonted scrutiny into unknown 
organisations would become uncontrollable, and 
happiness as well as usefulness, in a career for 
which I am peculiarly qualified, would be sacri- 
ficed at a very dear rate for a few more hundred 
pounds a year.’ 
After an account of a dinner at Sir Robert 
Peel’s, where the possible action of the Chartists 
on the following day was discussed among other 
subjects, Owen refers to his ‘ Archetype of the 
Skeleton ’ in the following words ; ‘ I have 
brought out my “ Archetype ” book ; Van Voorst 
sells it for lo^., and is to give me 6s. 6d. for each 
copy. He has taken 150 copies. Chapman took 
fifty, and accounts to me for ^s. 6d. for each, 
selling at lOi'.’ 
His passion for anatomy was strong enough 
to withstand the slight inconveniences connected 
with the rooms which Owen inhabited at the 
College of Surgeons. The following entry in the 
diary of his wife shows that she also made light 
of them for her husband’s sake : — 
‘ Great trampling and rushing upstairs past 
our bedroom door. Asked R. if the men were 
dancing the polka on the stairs. He said “ No > 
what you hear is the body being carried upstairs- 
They are dissecting for fellowship to-day ! ” R. en- 
gaged with the dissectors.’ 
Tn September we find that one of the aurochs 
