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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VI. 
The last two sentences of this letter read 
more like those of a boy at school than of a 
busy man of sixty-two, and serve to illustrate the 
wonderful spirits which Owen enjoyed throughout 
his life. 
‘ Poor Whewell,’ he writes to his sister Maria 
on February 27, 1S66, ‘is reported rather more 
favourably of in this morning’s “ Times ; ” but it 
is not a very hopeful case. I think it not 
unlikely that he had a kind of stroke while 
on his horse, and so startled the animal before 
he fell. There will be expectancies now raised 
that were kept in abeyance through belief in 
the long-aged constitution of the strong-looking 
man. A few days afterwards Whewell passed 
away, and by his death Owen lost a school- 
fellow and an old and lifelong friend. 
Owen thus writes to a correspondent in 
Germany who is desirous of translating his 
‘ Paleontology’ into German (March 16, 1866);— 
‘ I have communicated your request to 
Messrs. Black, who have the copyright of my 
Paleontology, and have this morning heard 
from them. They have no objections to the 
translation of the work into German, and I 
shall have pleasure in its being undertaken 
by so devoted a zoologist and paleontologist 
as yourself. Whatever additions you may think 
fit to make will receive my best attention in 
relation to a third edition of the English issue. 
