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and part of September in taking a thorough 
res t. 
Just before starting for Scotland (July 24), 
‘the skeleton of the great chimpanzee arrived, 
sent by Captain Harris. It is the first full-grown 
skeleton ever brought to England. I am thank- 
ful it did arrive before we started, for otherwise 
R. would have inevitably turned back to open 
the box.’ 
After visiting Edinburgh, Lancaster, Derby, 
and other places, they returned home on Sep- 
tember 19. On the following day ‘ there arrived 
a precious volume for R.’s inspection — the ori- 
ginal MS. of “Waverley,” mislaid so long by 
Sir Walter Scott. There was a letter from 
Lockhart with it to vouch for its authenticity. 
R. was luckily able to spend some time over it 
before it had to be sent to the Advocates’ Library 
in Edinburgh.’ 
On September 28 an amusing caricature ap- 
peared in ‘ Punch ’ — a night at the Royal Insti- 
tution, Owen lecturing. ‘The diagrams very 
well done,’ he remarks, ‘ and the picture is really 
very clever.’ 
This month a new polar bear was added to 
the Zoological Gardens. ‘ R. went at 2 o clock to 
the Gardens, just in time to see the new polar bear 
turned out of his barrel (he was brought over in 
a barrel and had been cooped up for weeks) into 
the residence of the female polar bear. She 
