PROFESSOR OWEN 



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 Depart- 

 ment of the British .vtuseum — Death of his Sister, Grace 

 Owen— Cardinal Wiseman, Dr. and Mrs. Livingstone, 1856. 



In the year 1855 Owen's work ' On the Archetype 

 and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton ' was 

 translated into French and appeared under the 

 title, ' Principes d'Osteologie comparee ; ou, Re- 

 cherches sur 1' Archetype et les Homologies du 

 SquelettevertebreV 1 The publication of his lectures 

 on the ' Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of 

 the Invertebrate Animals' reached a second 

 edition. Before the beginning of his Hunterian 

 course, he gave a lecture to a large audience 

 at the Royal Institution on ' Anthropoid Apes.' 



The subject chosen for the Hunterian Lectures 

 this season was ' Fossil Remains ; ' but before de- 

 livering them Owen gave as an introduction to 



1 Paris : J. B. Bailliere, 1855. 

 VOL. II. B 



