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of this wondrous structure. Think what it may be- 
come— the Temple of the Holy Spirit! Defile 
it not. Seek rather to adorn it with all meet and 
becoming gifts, and with fair furniture, moral and 
intellectual ’ 
Owen never .let an opportunity pass of seeing 
with his own eyes any curious or abnormal deve- 
lopment of the human frame. He once remarked, 
d propos of violin-playing, how much struck he 
had been in examining Ernst’s long, bony, and 
muscular fingers, which the great violinist had 
obligingly offered for the Professor’s inspection. 
On one occasion (xA.ugust 8), ‘ Frank Buckland 
came to the British Museum for R. and took him 
to see the French giant, Joseph Brice, now being 
exhibited in Fondon. They found him in bed with 
a cold. He looked, R. said, cjuite a Goliath as he 
lay his full length, with his great hands spread 
out on the bed, but he is not quite so tall as he is 
represented to be. He is really 7 ft. 6 in. He is 
a great favourite of Frank’s, and is certainly ami- 
able and pleasant.’ 
On September 22, Professor Owen received 
a document from the Italian Fegation, creating 
him a Chevalier of the Order of St. Maurice and 
St. Fazare, in the name of the King, Victor 
Emanuel. 
Owen was the guest of Mr. Gladstone at 
Hawarden in September 1862, and wrote to his 
sister from that place on the 27th. He gives little 
