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PROFESSOR OWEN 



CH. VI. 



As for giving up work, poor creatures of habit and 

 circumstances as we are ! Not while I can do it 

 and it comes in my way — at all events, in finishing 

 what I've made good progress in. Ask Pearson 2 

 [Langshaw] if he thinks it likely ! ' 



THE DODO 



natural size 



In October 1865 Owen received a parcel 

 of bones of the dodo, through the Bishop of 

 Mauritius, and in acknowledging these important 

 remains he says : — 



4 Through your kind offices my eyes have at 

 length been gladdened by the sight of the bones 



2 His Lancaster friend. 



