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house-tops — a very singular part of the scene.’ 
The day after he was dining with Hay Cameron, 
a fellow-commissioner with Macaulay in the East 
Indies, and a great-grandson of the head of the 
clan that marched with Prince Charlie to Derby 
in ’45. ‘ By the way,’ he says, ‘ he showed me 
an original miniature of the “ Prince ” which the 
latter gave to his ancestor at their first leave- 
taking. The poet Henry Taylor (Van Artevelde) 
and Lord Wrottesley were of the party.’ 
In reference to the death of the Duke of 
Wellington, Professor Owen wrote on November 
13, 1852, to Mr. Thomas Poyser, of Wirks- 
worth : — 
‘ I have been particularly favoured in respect 
of the remarkable solemnities in honour of the 
memory of the great Duke. The present amiable 
inheritor of the title called on me last Wednesday 
to request that I would call on him to see the cast 
that had been taken after the Duke’s demise, and 
give some advice to a sculptor who is restoring 
the features in a bust, intending to show the noble 
countenance as in the last years of the Duke’s life. 
It is a most extraordinary cast. It appears that 
the Duke had lost all his teeth, and the natural 
prominence of the chin and nose much exaggerates 
the intermediate space caused by the absorption of 
the alveoli.^’ He of course wore a complete set 
=' There follows a little sketch of the cast. 
