370 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. XL 



Albert, at the Royal Society of Arts, on ' Raw 

 Animal Products and their Uses in Manufac- 

 ture.' This lecture was published by the Society 

 in their volume of lectures on the various classes 

 of exhibits. 



Mr. Scott Russell, after the address, made a 

 speech, in which he mentioned all that Owen had 

 done towards the perfection of the collection of 

 raw materials in the Great Exhibition, especially 

 how he arranged and compiled the lists and had 

 them circulated in foreign countries. 



In July, at the meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion at Ipswich, Owen delivered an address in the 

 Corn Market on ' The Distinction between Plants 

 and Animals.' This lecture was of a popular 

 character, and soon after its delivery Sir Charles 

 Lyell wrote the following letter to Owen, dated 

 from Werstead Vicarage : — 



Sir C. Lyell to R. Owen 



' My host, the Rev. Barham Zincke, is in such 

 a state of enthusiasm about your lecture, which he 

 says he would not have missed for 100/., that I 

 must tell you before leaving for town that it 

 struck me as the most successful effort I have yet 

 heard you make in popularising a very abstruse 

 subject, and so constantly keeping the grand 

 general views in sight that none of the details 

 were tedious to anyone. I have sometimes as- 

 certained that at the Royal Institution you have 



