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CHAPTER III 



1857-59 



Lecturer on Palaeontology — The 'Prix Cuvier,' 1857 — Suspected 

 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 — Literary Work and Lectures — Correspon- 

 dence on Darwin's ' Origin of Species.' 



Now that the development of the Natural 

 History Museum at South Kensington has been 

 traced from the early schemes which Owen formed 

 up to their practical realisation, it will be neces- 

 sary to go back to the year 1857, in order to pick 

 up the thread of his life and work at that date. 



This year was marked by his appointment as 

 Lecturer on Palaeontology at the Royal School 

 of Mines, Jermyn Street. His first lecture was 

 given on February 26, at the Museum of Practical 

 Geology, and amongst the audience, as an entry 

 in the diary shows, ! were many old friends : Dr. 

 Livingstone, Frank Buckland, the Duke of 

 Argyll with his sons, Sir Charles Lyell, and Sir 

 Roderick Murchison.' 



