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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V, 
‘ I arrived here [at Alnwick] to dinner on 
Wednesday,’ he writes to his wife (September 5), 
‘and found Professor Tyndall and Lord and 
Lady Tankerville, &c. On Thursday there was 
a grand flower and fruit show in the grounds ; 
since then have arrived, among others. Sir R. 
Murchison, Captain Grant of Nile celebrity. Sir 
William Armstrong, and a dark native of Ceylon 
in gorgeous costume. 
‘ Alnwick Castle is a wilderness of corridors, 
staircases, and rooms ; as Lord Ravensworth re- 
marked last night as we were going to bed, it 
was hard on gentlemen past sixty to have to 
mount 1 70 steps to get to rest ! 
‘ Breakfast bell will soon ring, and I have to 
get ready to start with Lord Tankerville, and so 
good-bye.’ 
Chillingham Castle, Alnwick. 
• ‘ Here at Lord Tankerville’s am I enjoying a 
hearty and lively time. I have had a good view' 
of the wild cattle, and have seen a red deer 
pulled down. This morning am off to Edinburgh.’ 
In the following month, October 7, 1863, 
Owen sends in a report to the Trustees of the 
British Museum about a whale which was 
stranded on the coast of Caithness, and which he 
was anxious that the Museum should possess.' 
■* It is the skeleton of this Natural History, South Ken- 
whale that now stands in the sington. 
entrance hall of the Museum of 
