152 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. v. 



Lord Russell and I returned by the same train 

 home.' 



In June Owen read a paper at the Royal Society 

 i On the Cavern of Bruniquel and its Human Re- 

 mains.' Writing to his sisters on the subject of 

 these remains, he says : ' The case contained skulls 

 and other bones of the men who made flint tools, 

 and by means of these made weapons and imple- 

 ments out of the bones and horns of the deer and 

 oxen they killed and ate. The deer were reindeer, 

 the oxen a gigantic extinct kind which we call Bos 

 primigenius. Of the flint and bone implements 

 there are thousands, all got out of the cave, which 

 must have been inhabited for generations by this 

 primaeval race of men. They even made needles 

 of bone, so perfect you might hem with them.' 



Some years previously Professor Owen had 

 delivered a lecture to the Young Men's Christian 

 Association at Exeter Hall ' On some Instances 

 of the Power of God as manifested in His Animal 

 Creation.' Certain statements in this lecture ap- 

 parently gave offence to the Committee of Pub- 

 lication, for its publication was cancelled. It 

 appeared, however, this year (1864) as ' Instances 

 of the Power of God, &c.,' i2mo. 



Professor Owen defended himself in a lecture 

 given at Leeds, in which he says : ' If the letter 

 killeth and the spirit giveth life, . . . how deeply 

 ought we to be concerned in more fully and clearly 

 delivering the religious truths which we accept 



