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the poulpe belongs to the shell, but how it has 

 come to pass that, after so many have debated 

 on the subject, Madame P. has been the first to 

 discover these things.' 



On February 7 Owen received the news that 

 he was elected corresponding member of the 

 Institute of France (Section d'Anatomie et de 

 Zoologie). 



' Some little time ago,' Mrs. Owen writes 

 apropos of this election, 4 R. was pressed by one or 

 two well-meaning friends in France, to send to the 

 Academy a list of his works as a sort of certificate 

 that he was worthy of the honour. This he flatly 

 but politely refused to do, or to act in any way so 

 as to lead them to suppose he was touting to be 

 elected. He is now doubly glad that he was firm 

 about it, as the present conduct of the Acade- 

 micians shows their opinion in a public manner 

 of the strange conduct of Coste. Mtiller and 

 Oken were the others for whom they balloted — 

 both considerably older than R.' 



On February 26, Prince Ch. Lucien Bonaparte 

 writes to Owen from Paris. After remarking that 

 he has sent Owen a MS. for the Linnean or 

 some other society, which he is anxious to have 

 printed immediately, he continues : — 



' I rely, at all events, exclusively upon you, 

 whom I know as a man of more doing than 

 saying. 



' And now let me congratulate you upon your 



