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pleasant memory of one who cannot be said to 
have been wealthy during his working life. And 
^hat he was ever ready to assist those who applied 
*^0 him, in spite of the fact that he had himself 
suffered from the usual gratitude of borrowers, is 
evident from the following observation in a letter 
to his sister Eliza, July 21, 1858; ‘A friend to 
tvhom last year I lent 50/. (a most culpable pro- 
cedure in a worldly point of view, and of which 
sum, from experiences of less amount, I mentally 
took leave for ever, expecting also to lose my 
l^fiend at the same time agreeably to rule) called 
cu me on the morning of the 20th, and honour- 
ably repaid me, with expressions that showed that 
the loan had been of important service ; so, the 
■'^tin being very bright, all things concurred to 
^take the day so [his wedding day].’ 
Owen’s Presidential address to the British 
^'Association this year, of which he made mention 
an early letter to his sister as weighing on his 
tuind, was delivered in the autumn at Leeds, 
"hhis address contains a prodigious collection of 
facts, and embraces a large area of scientific 
knowledge. A part of it he devoted to his 
’^luws on a Natural History Museum, and he 
Concluded with the following remarks : ‘ The 
Simplest coral and the meanest insect may have 
Something in its history worth knowing, and 
some way profitable. Every organism is a 
character in which Divine wisdom is written, and 
