PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V. 
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Mrs. Owen’s diary informs us that : — 
‘ 25. — A most curious mark of popularity 
witnessed yesterday in front of the College — a 
man parading up and down with a transparent 
lantern with the words illuminated “ Owen’s 
lectures to be sold ! ” R. says he has no notion 
what they can be like. Mme. Power here. She 
is going to France, she says, on account of her 
health — I think on account of her fossils. I am 
sorry no one has taken them off her hands in this 
country.’ 
‘ March 7. — R. at work on revision of “ Mar- 
supial Osteology.” Afterwards comparing fossil 
bones, those brought by Sir Woodbine Parish from 
Buenos Ayres with those published in the Berlin 
“ Transactions.” Both found with coat of mail.’ 
‘ \oth. — R. busy over his paper ^ to show that 
the Megatherium has most probably no coat of 
mail, and that the bones found with the shield 
belonged to it. He has a beautiful and rare 
armadillo, shell and bones, which tell the story 
capitally ; the relative size of the roses in the 
armadillo shell to the bones helps forward the 
matter strongly.’ 
'April 21. — R. to Lord Cole’s to breakfast. 
■ This was the paper in armour had originally been 
which Owen corrected and confused as part of the integu- 
redescribed the Glyptodon, an ment of the Megatherium by 
extinct armadillo-like animal Mr. Clift, Dr. Buckland, and 
from Buenos Ayres, whose others. 
