i86o-6i DEATH OF HIS SISTER CATHERINE 
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Before returning to London Owen paid a 
visit to his friend Bateman at Coiigleton, with 
Dr. Daubeny, Du Chaillu, E. W. Cooke, and 
Dr. Garner,^ and, after staying a few days there, 
left for Lancaster, Glamorganshire, the Wrekin 
and Shrewsbury, and so back to London. At 
Shrewsbury he went to the Museum, which 
‘ contains some old fossil friends, including my 
Rhynchosam'us, and the best of the Roman anti- 
quities of Uriconium.’ 
He had scarcely returned home when he was 
summoned to Lancaster to the death-bed of his 
sister Catherine. On hearing of her illness he 
Wrote at once to say he was coming, and enclosed 
a letter to his dying sister (October 22) written 
in large text hand, so that she might be able 
to read it. ‘ Believe me, dearest Catherine,’ he 
says, ‘ I shall ever think of you with the warmest 
affection and love, forgetting none of the instances 
of your kind, warm heart and true affection.’ 
‘ Her death,’ he writes in his diary, ‘ has come 
’Wore suddenly than I expected.’ He returned 
home after spending a week at Lancaster with 
his two surviving sisters. 
A few days later (November 6 ), he gave the 
inaugural address of the Brighton and Sussex 
hluseum. ‘ The collection of the beautiful works 
Nature,’ he remarked, ‘is a work in which all of 
iis ought to feel some pleasure. Everywhere, if 
^ Robert Garner, author of History of Staffordshire 
