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in the morning, and came down to Sheen Lodge 
about an hour later in order to breakfast with 
Professor Owen. The Emperor, who was much 
interested in scientific questions, stayed some time 
looking at the Professor’s collections of different 
curiosities, greatly admiring the garden and the 
beautiful trees in it. Some years previously 
when the Emperor came over to England he 
had paid Owen a similar visit. 
It was rarely that Owen omitted to date his 
letters ; but about this time he wrote an undated 
letter to Dr. Milroy, in which he says : ‘ You have 
done good work in the thorough investigation of 
leprosy, and I trust you may be spared to receive 
evidence of the predicted results of the more 
rational treatment of the afflicted ones. 
‘ In my less practical or applicable labours, I 
have to report that the “ Researches on the Fossil 
Mammalia of Australia,” 2 vols. qto, are now in 
the binder’s hands. 
‘ This being issued, I push on to completion a 
similar series of researches on the “ Fossil Birds 
of New Zealand” (this with 150 plates, the other 
130). But then there remains the completion 
of a greater work (already partially issued), “ On 
the Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain.” Will my 
old cephalo-thoracic mucous tract outlast that 
labour ? ’ ® 
® The two volumes relating land to which Owen refers in 
to the fossil birds of New Zea- this letter consisted of separate 
