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obstacle in the way as to any demands of the 

 Dean and Chapter. All should be done very 

 quietly, for reasons not less of respect for the 

 dead than lest any excitement should be made 

 among the living. 



' I shall be at the Museum at the Committee 

 on Saturday, and will most readily talk over the 

 subject with you. 



1 Ever, my dear Professor, 



1 Very sincerely yours, 



' H. H. MlLMAN.' 



The coffin and remains were afterwards re- 

 moved to Westminster Abbey. 



In the early months of 1859 Owen received 

 the news of his friend Broderip's death. Sir 

 Roderick Murchison, in writing to him on the 

 subject on March 7, says : — 



' You will see in my Anniversary Geographical 

 [Address] of 1857 how I spoke of Broderip 

 when speaking of Buckland, for the Dean was 

 really and truly turned to geology by our 

 deceased friend.' 



Honours were still accumulating on Owen. 

 In April he had the distinction of being elected 

 one of the eight foreign members of the Institute 

 of France. 



He had now resumed his lectures at the 

 Royal School of Mines and also as Fullerian Pro- 

 fessor at the Royal Institution. * I have capital 



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