258 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. ix. 



an abundance of apt quotations and illustrations. 

 It was his habit to write such quotations on the 

 fly-leaf of his different works. From his own 

 interleaved copies the following examples are 

 taken at haphazard : — 



In his ' British Fossil Mammals and Birds,' 

 for example, there is the appropriate quotation, 

 ' Bones bear witness/ 3 



In his work descriptive of the extinct gigantic 

 sloth, the Mylodon, he has written : ' Framed in 

 the prodigality of nature.' 



In his earliest volume of Hunterian Lectures, 



when he was just starting on his scientific career, 



he has written : ' If the Lord will, we shall live, 



and do this or that ' (James iv. 15), And in a later 



volume of lectures : 



' Ut primum inspexi, me non vigilare putavi, 

 Luminibusque meis visa neganda fides.' 



And as another example (' On the Nature of 



Limbs ') : olov TrirrovOev ovvt; 7ipbs 07r\rjp kclI X^P 



Trpbs x r i^ 7 l 1 ' (Aristotle). 



1 Each part may call the farthest brother, 

 And hand with foot hath secret amity.' 



The autumn of 1883 found Owen still hard 

 at work completing the arrangement of the 

 Natural History collections in their new home. 

 On September 22 he wrote to Pearson Lang- 

 shaw regretting that he could not attend the 



3 Comedy of Errors, iv., 4. 



