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canonised in our "Transactions " [of the Geological 

 Society] ; and as his last and accurate dying 

 speech is given by yourself; and as H. von Meyer 

 never saw the original and has only heaped error 

 upon error by arguing from Mantell's drawing, 

 pray do not have his name of Canis palustris. 



1 Give any nom de guerre you please, but for 

 God's sake and for love of me (qualifying it as 

 much as you please) do let us show by the name 

 that you have defined a new fossil link" Yield- 

 ing to this earnest request, Owen named it Gale- 

 cynus ceningensis. 



On October 9, 1846, we find Owen writing to 

 his sister Eliza from Drayton Manor, where he 

 had gone to stay with Sir Robert Peel. He 

 travelled down with Samuel Rogers and Charles 

 Eastlake, and gives the following interesting 

 particulars of his stay there : — 



' The poet [Rogers], who is deaf, asked me if I 

 could tell him who some of the people were [at the 

 dinner party], who this, who that (he is getting old 

 now). Sir Robert came to the rescue by " Mr. 

 Rogers, will you take a glass of Johannisberger ? " 

 Very agreeable chat with my right-hand neigh- 

 bour, which led old Sam to say, " But you can 

 tell me who your friend is ? " After dinner Sir R. 

 asked many questions on Natural History and 

 Physiology ; characters of races of men ; Sir 

 James [Graham] joined, touching development of 

 negro intellect in St. Domingo ; then it led to 



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