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name ; he was a lecturer to factory and other 

 wage people.' 



This year appeared Owen's account of the 

 packet of bones sent him in 1865 by the Bishop of 

 Mauritius : ' Memoirs on the Dodo,' 4to ; ' Evi- 

 dence of a large Parrot contemporary of the 

 Dodo [Psittacus mauritianus) ' (' Trans. Zool. 

 Soc.') ; ' The Anatomy of the Aye-Aye ' (' Trans. 

 Zool. Soc.,' vol. v. p. 2>o) ; an d last, but not least, 

 Parts IX., X., XL, and XII. ' On Dinornis,' 

 which appeared in ' Trans. Zool. Soc.,' vols. v. 

 and vi. 



In January 1867 Professor Owen wrote and re- 

 ceived many letters on the subject of the marriage 

 of his only son, which took place on the 5th. To 

 his friend Mr. White Cooper he says : ' You 

 may be sure we bore off in triumph what I think 

 the most tasteful of all the gifts that were contri- 

 buted to what we called the " International Ex- 

 hibition." For a thorough winter's morning nothing 

 could be brighter : the whole park was frosted like 

 a gigantic bride-cake, the sun shone at its best 

 between eleven and twelve, and our little church, 

 with its Xmas ornaments and painted windows, 

 looked decked for a wedding. A charming sister of 

 the bride, aet. sixteen, was bridesmaid. I returned 

 to a rich and tasteful wedding breakfast at Percy 

 Lodge, and the happy pair rode off in a shower of 

 old shoes.' 



Among those who wrote to congratulate him 



