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OWEN 



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Birth and Parentage School Life Apprenticed Edinburgh Univer- 

 sity St Bartholomew's Hospital Prosector to Abernethy Mr 

 Clif t and the Royal College of Surgeons Lecturer at St Bartholo- 

 mew's Hospital Owen visited Cuvier in Paris Owen and Voltaire's 

 Statue Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus Huxley's Remarks con- 

 cerning the Memoir Catalogues of the Hunterian Collection 

 Professorship F.R.S. Marriage Odontography Sir William 

 Flower on Owen's Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrates 

 Dinornis The History of British Fossil Reptiles British Fossil 

 Mammalia and Birds Researches on the Fossil Remains of the Extinct 

 Mammals of Australia Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand 

 Oslerism His Work in Palaeontology Definitions of Analogy and 

 Homology Darwinism His Scientific Imagination Origin of 

 Species His Work on the Anthropoid Apes, Monotremes, Marsupials, 

 Apteryx, Dodo, Lepidosiren, Toxodon Platensis, etc. Huxley's Ap- 

 preciation of Owen's Palaeontological Work His Comparative 

 Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals His Letters to 

 the Author Owen and the Natural History Department of the 

 British Museum Civil List Pension Honours K.C.B. LL.D. 

 and other Degrees Medals Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park (a 

 Royal Residence) His Character Herbert Spencer and Darwinian- 

 ism Failing Health Owen's Letter to the Author Death and 

 Burial King Edward's Remarks Concerning Owen Statue of 

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LIEBIG 



Birth Universities of Bonn and Erlangen Goethe and German Pro- 

 fessors Became a Pupil of Gay-Lussac Introduced to Humboldt 

 Combustion Analysis Professorship of Chemistry at Giessen Uni- 

 versity Liebig and Wohler on the Cyanates Professorship at 

 Munich Hofmann's Eulogy His Great Work on Agricultural 

 Chemistry Birth of the Superphosphate Industry Mineral Theory 

 of Plant Nutrition Laws of Husbandry Liebig's Attack on Eng- 

 land Familiar Letters on Chemistry Made a Baron Liebig's Defini- 

 tion of a Compound Radicle Schorlemmer's Definition of Organic 

 Chemistry Chloroform Chloral and Aldehyde Organic Acids and 

 the Doctrine of Basicity Liebig and Bromine Liebig and Mistakes 

 His Books Honours Death . . . . 91 



