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PROFESSOR OWEN 
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islands of New Zealand where attention to such 
evidences was likely to be attracted. 
‘ The confirmatory response, anxiously expected 
DINORNIS (PACHYORNIS) EI.EPHANTOI*US, OWEN 
Side view of a skeleton of the Elephant-footed Moa, from New Zealand, 
restored by Owen. About ^ natural size. 
through the years 1840, 1841, and 1842, at length 
arrived, in a letter from the Rev. William 
Cotton, M.A., in one from Colonel Wakefield, 
and in some collections of bones transmitted by 
