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wall, and, resting under the shade of a tree, watched 
the privileged crowd from a distance, and return- 
ing to Paris solaced themselves with a dinner at 
the ‘Palais National’ and ‘ Le Prophete’ at the 
Opera, and before going to bed relieved both 
their minds by inditing somewhat strong letters 
about their tickets to the Prefect. 
Next morning Owen went, with some of the 
other jurymen, to a charcoal manufactory to in- 
spect the furnaces, and gave the men a sovereign 
to drink the success of their master, who had won 
a medal at the Exhibition. Returning to Paris, he 
went to the J ardin des Plantes, ‘ and gave a long 
lecture to a large party, all full of indignation at 
their treatment at St. Cloud.’ This indignation, 
Owen tells us, arose in the following manner : 
‘ Dijetmer was served in the Orangerie. The 
moment the doors were opened the military rushed 
in and occupied all the seats, drank all the cham- 
pagne and ate all the fowls, and left the ladies 
dying with thirst and hunger outside.’ 
On another day he saw a review in the Champ 
de Mars, for which he was accommodated with a 
place in the President’s ‘ tribune,’ and about this 
review he sent a twelve-page letter to his son. 
As chairman of the jury on ‘The Raw Materials 
and Produce of the Animal Kingdom,’ he ulti- 
mately published an elaborate report of their 
awards, and, after his work as juror was completed, 
delivered an address, at the request of Prince 
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