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reddish yellow with purple shadows in which the 

 artist delights, and it is painted with all the 

 sculptured accuracy that is familiar to us in Mr. 

 Hunt's religious subjects. None the less is it a 

 fine portrait and also a fine likeness.' 



In the same year Mr. Hamo Thornycroft ex- 

 hibited a bust of Owen. In a letter to the writer 

 he mentions how exemplary a sitter the Professor 

 was. ' He was good enough,' he writes, 'to give 

 me about a dozen sittings for the portrait bust. 

 His very charming and genial manner, as he sat 

 and told me anecdotes of men long past — Turner 

 and Chan-trey — made these occasions very delight- 

 ful and interesting to me. I modelled the bust in 

 1880, but the marble w T as not exhibited in the 

 Academy until 1881.' 



On April 6 Owen went to Folkestone in order 

 to unveil a statue of William Harvey. In memory 

 of this occasion the Mayor and Corporation of 

 that borough presented him with a copy of 

 Harvey's works. Under the title of ' Experi- 

 mental Physiology' (1884), we have, in an 

 amplified form, and with various additions, the 

 substance of the address which Owen delivered 

 there. 



Until 1883 the Professor was almost daily at 

 the new Museum, where there was still much to 

 be done. With regard to the skeleton of the 

 whale which now stands in the entrance hall, he 

 writes to Mr. A. Waterhouse, July 31, 1882 : — 



