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of " Faculty of the Museum," holding the purse- 

 strings of his expenditures, which was not a sine- 

 cure. I suppose you know all about his son Alex, 

 and his monograph on the " Acheenodaarms," 1 

 as his father used to call them ; also how he went 

 up to Lake Superior and got hold of some copper 

 mines, which made him and his friends so rich 

 that some of them do not know what to do with 

 their money. ... I beg your pardon for gossip- 

 ping as I have done.' 



On December 17, at a meeting of the Royal 

 Colonial Institute, Owen made a speech on 'New 

 Guinea,' which was printed in 'The Colonies,' 

 December 21. 



In May 1879 Owen again delivered a lecture 

 at the Colonial Institute on ' The Extinct Animals 

 of the British Colonies.' As is well known, he 

 always made a point of asking colonial officials 

 and travellers to collect and forward to him as 

 many remains as they could procure of the extinct 

 animals to be found in the localities which they 

 visited. Bishops, governors, missionaries, and 

 medical men from all parts of the globe worked 

 for him in that way. His appeals ' to be borne in 

 mind when the opportunity of collecting such 

 fossils might occur ' (as he writes to a Governor of 

 Queensland who had contributed part of the 

 materials of his ' Fossil Mam mals of Australia ' ) were 



1 Echinoderms. 



