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He received many honours : the Presidency of the Geological 

 and Geographical Societies, of the British Association, the Wollaston, 

 the Royal, and the Copley Medals ; valuable presents and an Order 

 from the Czar of Russia, honorary degrees, knighthood, and then 

 a baronetcy in his own country. 



SIR RICHARD OWEN, a master in vertebrate palaeontology, was 

 the younger son of an India merchant, born at Lancaster on July 

 aoth, 1 80 1. At its grammar school his chief hobby was heraldry, 

 but when apprenticed to a surgeon, this gave place to anatomy. 

 Passing through Edinburgh University and St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital, he became M.R.C.S. hi August, 1826. After practising 

 for a short time near Lincoln's Inn, he was appointed Assistant- 

 Conservator to the Hunterian Museum, visited Paris in 1831 to study 

 under Cuvier and at the Jardin des Plantes, and then, next year, 

 published his memoir on the Pearly Nautilus, which " placed him 

 at a bound in the first rank of anatomical monographers." In 

 1834 he became F.R.S., and next year married Miss Clift, daughter 

 of the Hunterian Conservator, whom he succeeded in 1842, and 

 was elected Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College 

 of Surgeons. He had now gained a position in science and in society, 

 was esteemed by Prince Albert, and in 1842 received a Civil List 

 pension. Ten years later the Queen gave him Sheen Lodge in 

 Richmond Park. But nothing distracted him from the documents 

 and specimens in the Hunterian Museum and his palaeontological 

 work. In 1856 he became Superintendent of the Natural History 

 Department in the British Museum, to the removal of which from 

 Bloomsbury he was favourable. (It was accomplished in 1881.) 

 But in this post his career was hardly so successful, though it afforded 

 facilities for his scientific work. To enumerate his papers and 

 books would be impossible by 1843 he had written 200 of the 

 former; it must suffice to mention his works on the Mylodon and 

 Gigantic Sloths of South America, and on the Dodo of New Zealand, 

 which started from a fragment of a thigh bone. He received hono- 

 rary degrees, the Wollaston, Royal and Copley Medals, was created 

 C.B. in 1873 and K.C.B. in 1884. He died at Sheen, Dec. i8th, 1892. 



PROFESSOR RICHARD PARTRIDGE, a noted surgeon, was born 

 at Ross, Jan. ipth, 1805. Beginning his medical training in Bir- 

 mingham, he went on to St. Bartholomew's, and became M.R.C.S. 

 in 1827. Afterwards he was connected with the hospitals at Charing 

 Cross and King's College, being elected, in 1836, Professor of Anatomy 

 at the latter. He was admitted into the Royal Society in 1837, 

 was Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy, and, though he 

 did not publish much, was highly valued as a teacher. He died 

 March 25th, 1873. 



DR. JONATHAN PEREIRA, who won great repute for his knowledge 

 of pharmacy, was born in Shoreditch on May 22nd, 1804, and at 



