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information about his stay, beyond mentioning 

 that Mr. Gladstone sang two songs, and that he 

 had had some conversation with Sir Stephen 

 Glynn and Miss Burdett-Coutts, and that they had 

 ' a pleasant chatty dinner and evening.' 



His lectures at Buckingham Palace were still 

 bearing fruit. He was now called upon to de- 

 scribe the Dicynodont reptiles and the fossil 

 remains collected in South Africa by H.R.H. 



Dicynodon lacerticeps (Owen). 



Skull of a primitive reptile from the Karoo formation of Cape 

 Colony. The first evidence of a new order of animals deter- 

 mined and described by Owen. \ natural size. 



Prince Alfred. 2 Sir C. B. Phipps wrote the follow- 

 ing letter by command of the Queen in acknow- 

 ledgment of the paper : — 



Windsor Castle : October 8, 1862. 



* My dear Professor Owen, — The Queen has 

 commanded me to return you Her Majesty's best 

 thanks for your paper upon the fossils collected in 

 South Africa by Prince Alfred, which you have 



2 This description was pub- Transactions of the Royal 

 lished in the Philosophical Society. 



