156 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. v. 



Mrs. Owen's diary informs us that : — 



' 25. — A most curious mark of popularity 

 witnessed yesterday in front of the College — a 

 man parading up and down with a transparent 

 lantern with the words illuminated " Owen's 

 lectures to be sold ! " R. says he has no notion 

 what they can be like. Mme. Power here. She 

 is going to France, she says, on account of her 

 health — I think on account of her fossils. I am 

 sorry no one has taken them off her hands in this 

 country.' 



' March 7. — R. at work on revision of " Mar- 

 supial Osteology." Afterwards comparing fossil 

 bones, those brought by Sir Woodbine Parish from 

 Buenos Ayres with those published in the Berlin 

 " Transactions." Both found with coat of mail.' 



' \otk. — R. busy over his paper 5 to show that 

 the Megatherium has most probably no coat of 

 mail, and that the bones found with the shield 

 belonged to it. He has a beautiful and rare 

 armadillo, shell and bones, which tell the story 

 capitally ; the relative size of the roses in the 

 armadillo shell to the bones helps forward the 

 matter strongly.' 



'April 2i. — R. to Lord Cole's to breakfast. 



5 This was the paper in armour had originally been 



which Owen corrected and confused as part of the integu- 



redescribed the Glyptodon, an ment of the Megatherium by 



extinct armadillo-like animal Mr. Clift, Dr. Buckland, and 



from Buenos Ayres, whose others. 



