

CONTENTS 



OF 



THE SECOND VOLUME 



CHAPTER I 



1855-56 



The Phoenix — The Crystal Palace at Sydenham — Juror of the 

 Universal Exhibition at Paris — Knight of the Legion of 

 Honour 1855 — Superintendent of the Natural History 

 Department of the British Museum — Death of his Sister, 

 Grace Owen — Cardinal Wiseman, Dr. and Mrs. Living- 

 stone, 1856 



CHAPTER II 



1856-81 



Owen's Scheme for a Natural History Museum — His Report 

 and Plan, 1859 — Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, 

 i860 — The Plan negatived — The Plan adopted by Mr. 

 Gladstone — Again rejected by the House of Commons in 

 1862 — Purchase of a New Site for the proposed Museum 

 sanctioned by Parliament in 1863 — The Completion of the 

 New Museum, 1881 28 



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