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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. iir. 
chief members of the Association. By this kind 
arrangement of Sir James I avoid a forty-miles’ 
journey in crowded vehicles on Thursday, for most 
of the party will have to go and return the same 
day from Balmoral, there being no sleeping ac- 
commodation. From Balmoral I return to sleep 
Thursday night at Sir J. C.’s, and then proceed 
on Sunday to Lancaster, and have a couple of 
quiet days there to recruit before going on to my 
lectures at Manchester and Liverpool, . . . and 
have given up visits to the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl 
of Caithness, Lord Ashburton, Grant Duff, &c.’ 
Owen’s plans, however, were altered, for in 
another letter, September 21, he says: ‘Soon 
after I despatched my last, I received a kind 
invitation from Lady John Russell to spend a few 
days with them at Abergeldie (where the Prince of 
Wales was staying) after visiting Balmoral, and it 
is arranged that I am to sleep there after visiting 
Her Majesty to-morrow.’ 
Owen states in his diary that he lectured at 
Manchester on September 26, 29, 30, October 3, 
,7, 10, and at Liverpool on September 27 and 
October 4 and 6. 
His position at the British Museum brought 
him into contact with many interesting questions 
not primarily connected with his own line of work. 
He bad always been a careful student of Shake- 
speare, and had this year the opportunity of making 
an examination of a copy of the second folio 
