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the chair. Duke of Argyll, Bishop of London, 
Dean Milman, Baron Van de Weyer, Pemberton 
Legh, Dundas (who used to go Northern 
Circuit), Dr. Holland. Hallam said that Hall’s 
famous sermon on Princess Charlotte was copied 
from, or founded on, one of Burnet’s on a daughter 
of Louis XIY. The Duke of Argyll, d propos of 
monomaniacs, related an anecdote of a Highland 
gentleman he visited, who insisted on walking 
backwards as he showed him to his sleeping-room ; 
also an anecdote of a worthy Scotch judge, who 
travelling by rail at the time of the Great 
Assembly, and finding himself at the place where 
the train stopped for dinner with a number of 
Scotch “ meenisters,” was asked by them to say 
grace, he being taken for the oldest and most 
reverend ; and thereupon he rose and, beginning 
a grace in Gaelic, continued it till the bell rang for 
the continuation of the journey.’ 
The Hunterian Lectures given this season by 
Owen were on the ‘ Anatomy of Fishes.’ He 
notes in his diary that during this course of 
lectures Hallam was again a constant attendant. 
A considerable part of this year was spent by 
Owen in ‘ directing and selecting the restorations 
of the megatherium and other extinct animals in 
the geological section of the grounds of the Crystal 
Palace at Sydenham.’ 
In the address of the Chairman of the Crystal 
Palace Company to the Queen the following 
