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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V. 
the pouipe belongs to the shell, but how it has 
come to pass that, after so many have debated 
on the subject, Madame P. has been the first to 
discover these things.’ 
On February 7 Owen received the news that 
he was elected corresponding member of the 
Institute of France (Section d’Anatomie et de 
Zoologie). 
‘ Some little time ago,’ Mrs. Owen writes 
apropos of this election, ‘ R. was pressed by one or 
two well-meaning friends in France, to send to the 
Academy a list of his works as a sort of certificate 
that he was worthy of the honour. This he flatly 
but politely refused to do, or to act in any way so 
as to lead them to suppose he was touting to be 
elected. He is now doubly glad that he was firm 
about it, as the present conduct of the Acade- 
micians shows their opinion in a public manner 
of the strange conduct of Coste. Muller and 
Oken were the others for whom they balloted — 
both considerably older than R.’ 
On February 26, Prince Ch. Lucien Bonaparte 
writes to Owen from Paris. After remarking that 
he has sent Owen a MS. for the Linnean or 
some other society, which he is anxious to have 
printed immediately, he continues ; — ■ 
‘ I rely, at all events, exclusively upon you, 
whom I know as- a man of more doing than 
saying. 
‘ And now let me congratulate you upon your 
