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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. XII. 
grant with newly opening azaleas and whitethorn, 
and I was tempted to the brink of the little lake 
by the strange gambols and gyrations of the great 
black-backed carp. At half-past four I returned 
again to bed and slept till half-past nine, in com- 
fortable instinctive unconsciousness that the whole 
was a reality and no early morning dream ! ’ 
This delight at living in the country was a life- 
long pleasure to Owen ; he is always referring to it 
in his letters, and in his later days, when his strength 
was declining and sleep was uncertain, he caused 
his bed to be raised to an unusual height, that he 
might, ‘ as he lay in bed, look out at the Park, and 
at the deer and the birds. ’ 
Before leaving his rooms at the College of 
Surgeons, and entering the new house, Owen 
gave his course of Hunterian Lectures, which 
in this year (1852) was on the ‘ Anatomy of In- 
vertebrates.’ In 1843 his Hunterian Lectures 
had been on the same subject, but this course was 
not a mere repetition of the former ; nor was this 
volume merely a reprint of the other, for, as he 
states in the preface to the volume of his later 
Lectures, ‘ the difference between them is in some 
measure indicative of the progress of the anatomy 
and physiology of the invertebrate animals during 
the ten years which intervened between my first 
and last course of lectures on that subject.’ 
In this year his ‘ Physiological Catalogue 
of the Hunterian Collections ’ reached its second 
