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ivory ticket when he left home this morning, and 
the official at the turnstile would not let him in, 
m spite of Babbage offering to prove his identity. 
At last Babbage found some person of import- 
ance who recognised R. at once, and so we got in 
hnally. We saw the Queen, Prince Albert, and 
the Emperor and Empress of the French file 
past as they walked along the gallery; the 
Empress, having gone a little way, sat down on 
a chair, and we afterwards heard that she found 
it so comfortable that Prince Albert gallantly 
bought it on the spot and presented her with it. 
The upper gallery was not open to the public, to 
prevent crowding on the light spiral staircase. 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Darwin there ; we walked 
about a bit with them. The Honourable Artil- 
lery Company also there in full force ; the officers 
of R.’s old corps seemed delighted to meet him 
again. Home about eight.’ 
The following extracts are also taken from 
the diary : — 
^May II.— R. dined with Lord Ashburton 
He met the Due d’Aumale there, who was 
pleasant in manner and evidently knows some- 
thing of fossils. There were present Thomas 
Carlyle, Mr. Thackeray, Lord Stanley, &c.’ 
^June 5.— About three o’clock there came in 
Landseer and E. W. Cooke, hot, weary and 
luncheonless. They had been to a private ’view 
of J. J. Chalon’s pictures, which are to be sold, and 
