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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. II. 
recommendation being supported by Professors 
Huxley and Maskelyne, Drs. Gray and Sclater, 
Messrs. Waterhouse, Thomas Bell, Gould, Sir 
Roderick Murchison, and Sir Benjamin Brodie. 
‘ Lest, however, the House might attach undue 
weight to this exceptional testimony, the chairman 
of the committee deemed it his duty, in bringing 
up the report, to warn the House of the character 
of such testimony, and his speech left, as I was 
told, a very unfavourable impression as regards 
myself I was chiefly concerned to know what 
might be put upon record in “ Hansard.” In 
that valuable work hon. members revise their re- 
ported utterances before the sheets go to press. 
I was somewhat relieved to find Mr. Gregory 
merely regretting that “ a man whose name stood 
so high should connect himself with so foolish, 
crazy, and extravagant a scheme, and should per- 
severe in it after the folly had been pointed out 
, by most unexceptionable witnesses. 
‘ “ They had on one side, and standing alone. 
Professor Owen and his ten-acre scheme, and on 
the other side all the other scientific gentlemen, 
who were perfectly unanimous in condemning 
the plan of Professor Owen as being utterly 
useless and bewildering.” ’ 
One point in particular was especially ridiculed 
by Mr. Gregory in the course of the debate in 
the House of Commons, and that was ‘galleries 
850 feet in length for the exhibition of whales.’ 
