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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. X. 
reminiscences of his early life were intimately 
associated, and we learn the sentiments with 
which Owen regarded his father-in-law from the 
interesting ‘ Obituar>^ Memoir of William Clift ’ 
which he shortly afterwards communicated to the 
Royal Society. 
In July, Owen received a letter on the subject 
of the window tax from Travers Twiss, exhort- 
ing him, in the following terms, to use his influence 
towards its abolishment. ‘ It has always struck 
me as rather a cruel provision to tax such 
ventilators, even when it was not regarded as 
prejudicial to health. But in the present day, 
when the State does not hesitate to impose severe 
duties on individuals as to drainage, ventilation, 
&c., it seems inconsistent in its not recognising 
the duty of the State to throw no impediment by 
its own fiscal regulations in the way of one of the 
most important branches of domestic ventilation. 
Can you bring the subject before the proper 
authorities, or let me know how it should be done ? 
It would be a politic as well as a proper measure, 
and the gain is so paltry.’ 
On the 2 1 St of this month we have an account 
of another visit of Prince C. L. Bonaparte to 
Owen : — 
‘ R. had gone off to the Gardens, and I was 
sitting alone at home when I heard a familiat 
voice asking questions of the servant at the gate. 
Presently the door opened and the servant an- 
