[6] PROFESSOR OWEN 



CHAPTER III 

 1857-59 



PAG 



Lecturer on Palaeontology — The 'Prix Cuvier, 5 1857 — Sus- 

 pected of the Authorship of ' Scenes from Clerical Life' — 

 Fullerian Professor of Physiology, 1857 — Address as 

 President of the British Association, 1858 — Discovery of 

 the Remains of John Hunter, 1859 — Foreign Member of 

 the Institute of France — Hon. LL.D. of Cambridge, and 

 Rede Lecturer, 1859 — The British Association at Aberdeen 

 — Succeeded as President by the Prince Consort — Lite- 

 rary Work and Lectures — Correspondence on Darwin's 

 ' Origin of Species ' 59 



CHAPTER IV 

 1860-61 



Natural History Lectures at Buckingham Palace — Ascent of 

 the Cime de Jazi — Edition of Hunter's MSS., 1861 — Lord 

 J. Russell — M. Du Chaillu — Popular Lecturing — Death 

 of his Sister Catherine — Death of the Prince Consort . 97 



CHAPTER V 

 1862-64 



Jenny Lind — Ruskin — Dickens — Made Chevalier of the Italian 

 Order of S. Maurice and S. Lazare — Inauguration of the 

 Leeds Institution, 1862 — Memoirs on the 'Aye-Aye,' and 

 other Literary Work, 1863 — Lectures before the Queen at 

 Windsor, 1864 128 



CHAPTER VI 

 1865-68 



Social Life — Letter from Tennyson — Serious Illness — Bones 

 of the Dodo — Plan of Sunday Lectures, 1865 — His Love 

 of Society, and wide Circle of Friends — Death of Whewell, 



