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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. XII. 
CHAPTER XII 
1852-54 
Delight in Country Life— Hunterian Lectures, 1852 — Landseer, 
Mulready, Fanny Kemble, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens 
—Love of Fishing— Dinner in the Iguanodon, 1853— Literary 
and Scientific Work, 1S54. 
By the end of May 1852 Owen had settled 
down in the house in Richmond Park, and the 
delight with which he always contemplated his 
surroundings there had already been felt by him. 
Writing to his sister Kate on the 20th of that 
month, he says : ‘ The van-loads of heavy goods 
travelled safely (and in fine weather, which is a 
great matter) to the cottage on Saturday, where 
we all slept, and Will and I made our first ap- 
pearance at Mortlake Church on Sunday. 
We felt like “jolly squatters ” yesterday, but shall 
be shaken into some shape by the end of a week. 
Poor Carry compared herself to an overboiled 
chicken when she woke after the fatigues of the 
first day’s move. I was awoke at three o’clock on 
Sunday morning by a concert of a very unusual 
kind to my ears, and, tempted by the unwonted 
