PREFACE 
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I wish also to express my best thanks to Mr. 
John Murray for many suggestions and revisions, 
and for the interest he has taken in the work. 
It only remains for me to acknowledge my 
indebtedness to Lady White Cooper, Sir William 
Flower, Professor Jeffrey Bell, Dr. Pearson Lang- 
shaw, and others, for valuable information which 
has done much to enhance the interest of the bio- 
graphy, and to Dr. Henry Woodward and the 
Pev. H. N. Hutchinson for the illustrations of 
some extinct animals, the reconstruction of which 
occupied so large a part of Professor Owen’s life. 
RICHARD OWEN. 
Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park ; 
October 1894. 
