14 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR RICHARD OWEN, K.C.B., 



LL.D., F.R.S. 



The many obituary notices which have lately appeared of 

 this distinguished zoologist and palaeontologist have well nigh 

 rendered unnecessary any further testimony of his worth, Yet 

 it would ill become us, in a Journal devoted to the popular 

 aspect of that science of which he was a professor, to pass un- 

 noticed the services rendered by him to the cause during a long 

 and busy life. 



We have only to look at the list of honours bestowed upon 

 him, as enumerated in ' The Times ' of Dec. 19th, to see that a 

 man of no ordinary talent and ability has lately passed away from 

 us. In 1842 the Royal Society conferred on him the Royal Medal 

 for his Memoirs on the general economy of the Monotremes and 

 Marsupials, and in 1846 the same Society decreed to him the 

 Copley Medal. In 1851 the King of Prussia sent to him the 

 Ordre pour le Merite. In 1855 the Emperor of the French 

 bestowed on him the cross of the Legion d'Honneur. The 

 Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin conferred on him 

 honorary degrees. The Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland 

 made him an Honorary Fellow, and most of the European and 

 American societies numbered his name on their lists of honorary 

 or corresponding members. In 1857 he was elected President of 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In 

 1859 he was chosen one of the eight foreign associates of the 

 Institute of France (in succession to Robert Brown). The 

 Emperor of Brazil, in 1873, gave him the Imperial Order of the 

 Rose; while in the same year the Queen conferred on him the 

 Order of the Bath, of which Order he was made a Knight Com- 

 mander in December, 1883, on the occasion of his resigning the 

 post of Superintendent of the Natural History Museum. In 

 1874 the Academy of Medicine, Paris, elected him as one of their 

 foreign associates, in succession to Baron Liebig. In 1882 the 

 King of Italy sent him the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare. 

 And all these honours were the reward of merit, fairly 

 earned by the closest investigation of Nature's secrets, and by 

 the study and elucidation of many important problems in 

 zoology, comparative anatomy and palaeontology. 



