So 
PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. III. 
thinking that ii and the Levee had been two of 
the greatest contrasts which London could have 
exhibited in the same afternoon.’ 
In reply to Owen’s letter asking permission 
to move the coffin to St. Paul’s, Dean Milman 
wrote the following letter : — 
Deanery, St. Paul’s : February 25. 
‘ My dear Professor, — Are you quite sure that 
it is the genuine John Hunter ? I had some cor- 
respondence a few weeks ago with my friend Dr. 
Sutherland, and conversation with Professor Bell 
on the subject. Since that a rumour reached us 
that it was the wrong John. Remember that your 
credit is at stake. If you impose upon us the 
bones of a worthy grocer or warehouseman 
instead of the immortal surgeon, we shall never 
trust you again. We shall believe not a word of 
all your science ; nothing you advance about the 
ornithorynchus paradoxus, the dodo, or that 
rejined chimpanzee which you are making out to 
be our first cousin — only once removed. 
‘ However, if he be the real John (and it is 
not necessary for that to anatomise the anato- 
mist), I should be the last person not to wish to 
do him proper honour. The only difficulty is the 
anomaly of the case. It must be done quietly. 
The body cannot be removed without a faculty in 
the Bishop’s Court ; of that I presume you can at 
once ascertain the cost. Nor can there be much 
