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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. L 
The following entry in the diary will show 
that with his work at the British Museum Owen 
still kept up his musical interests ; — 
'July 13. — Mr. Ella, Madame Halle, Signor 
Piatti and his wife and the two Halid children, 
spent the day here very pleasantly. Mr. Halle 
could not come, being laid up with a sore throat. 
Madame Piatti is small and fair and an accom- 
plished musician. She and her gifted, quiet 
husband played some duets in the dusk of the 
evening, Piatti playing on R.’s beautiful “cello.”® 
They gave us tickets for Halle’s morning concert 
on the 17th.’ 
On August 5 Owen travelled with his wife to 
Bedford, where he gave a lecture on fossils found 
in that county. ‘We dined with the Mayor,’ 
Mrs. Owen writes, ‘ who made a speech after the 
lecture. Hoped Professor Owen’s presence and 
lecture would incite the people of Bedford to set 
up a museum of their own, and so on.’ After 
leaving Bedford, Owen went on to the meeting of 
the British Association in Cheltenham, and then 
travelled up to Scotland, where he was the guest 
of the Duke of Argyll at Murray Castle, Inver- 
aray, stopping at Lancaster on the way, to leave 
his wife with his sisters there. 
While at Inveraray he wrote them a long 
account of the beauties of the scenery of that 
district. Leaving on the 26th, he stayed a few 
* By Foster. 
