1865-68 VISIT TO SCOTLAND i6i 
ing of Lord and Lady Houghton and their 
daughter, aged thirteen, R. and myself, and one or 
two others. After seeing the College gardens, in 
full bloom, called on Sir Benjamin Brodie. Re- 
turned that evening to Richmond Park, found 
Mr. John Ella^ there, who stayed for a day or 
two. He played all the evening, while we had the 
large telescope out on the verandah and looked at 
Jupiter. Next morning Professor Babbage came. 
He sent in a curious bit of metal, like a cogwheel, 
with his name in red on it, and the words, “ No 
cards.” Believe it is a bit of his calculating 
machine.’ 
Owen spent part of his August holiday in 
Scotland. He writes to his sister, in a letter dated 
August 5, care of J. Fowler, Esq., Inverbroun 
Lodge, by Dingwall, Ross-shire, N.B. ; ‘If you 
glance at a map of Scotland you will see the west 
coast, opposite the Isle of Skye, Indented with deep 
inland bays. One of these forms the large lake I 
look out upon as I raise my eyes from the paper 
to the window. It is enclosed by mountains, the 
furthest shutting out the sea, and bathed in the 
deep pearly blue light that poor Robson knew so 
t^ell how to render. Y esterday our drive took us 
to rocky chasms, waterfalls, and mountain “ tarns,” 
the road in part like those Swiss roads on the 
^dge of a precipice, but safe enough with the 
steady horses ; though, by the way, when we got 
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