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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. II. 
is right, however, to state that the disposition 
of the building as proposed by you will give a 
greater amount of accommodation, and admit of 
a cheaper mode of construction, than I had cal- 
culated upon in May (relatively with the space 
intended to be covered), and therefore I think | 
your plan far better adapted for the museum than 1 
the plan I took the’ liberty to suggest to Mr. i 
Gladstone. i 
‘ “ Believe me, &c., 
‘ “ Henry A. Hunt.” j 
‘Sir H. A. Hunt had previously formed an ' 
estimate of cost for the Chancellor of the Ex- 
chequer on inspection of the Report and Plan in 
the Parliamentary paper of March 1859. The 
letter to which I refer I regard as an antidote to 
some previous quotations from adverse members 
of Parliament. 
‘The working plans of Sir Henry A. Hunt 
were subsequently submitted for competition, and 
the designs of the accomplished and lamented 
Captain Fowke, R.E., obtained the award in 
1864. His untimely death arrested further 
progress or practical application of the prize 
designs. 
‘ Mr. Alfred Waterhouse was then selected 
as architect, and prepared fresh designs ; ® and I 
® Afac-simile of a tracing of tees is here inserted, and will 
the plan accepted by the Trus- enable the reader to contrast 
