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the military fashion. Prince Albert rode on her 
left side and the Duke of Cambridge on her right. 
We watched the sham fight and afterwards went 
to the tent of one of the officers who was a friend 
of R.’s and had lunch in the mess tent of his 
regiment. We saw everything — hospital, stables, 
kitchen, &c. Home at half-past eight.’ 
Owen spent the September of this year in 
Paris with his wife, but nothing in this visit calls 
for remark. Soon after his return to London, in 
October, he writes to his friend White Cooper : — 
‘ Made my first appearance, after our return 
from France, here at the old scene of my scientific 
labours this morning. ... I shall be here now 
daily as usual, and might perhaps make a day 
when we might dine at the Athenaeum together 
and tell our adventures since we last met. I took 
my seat at the Institute and lectured in French 
to them on different matters for about an hour. 
You will see the report in the “ Comptes Rendus” 
I think for September 5 or thereabouts. . . . 
I expect soon to settle down into the old quiet 
jog-trot working state.’ 
'October 15. — R. busy dissecting the walrus 
which lately died at the Gardens. The man who 
had it to sell did a foolish thing in asking an 
unreasonable price for it in the first instance 
750/. The Society allowed the walrus to have a 
place in the Gardens at the man’s own responsi- 
bility, but would not listen to such a sum. The 
