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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VII. 
or to the history of discovery.’ [Then follows a 
long discussion as to the date of discovery of the 
first anthropomorphous remains.] 
On February 2 Owen lectured on the di- 
nornis at the Royal Institution. ‘ He had the 
bones and diagrams of the dinornis fetched early 
to the Institution, and after we had arranged 
them on the table they made an exceedingly fine 
show. Richard gave a very clear account, in his 
characteristic style, of all that is at present known 
on the subject. He made it interesting by dis- 
cussing the reasons for believing that the different 
genera of these apterous birds now known to us, 
are only remaining types of a large creation as 
proper to an early state of the globe. There was 
a large and most attentive audience, notwith- 
standing a great attraction on the opposite side of 
the street in Mr. Buckingham’s opening night of 
his Association. Faraday had tea ready for R- 
when his lecture was over, which was a true kind- 
ness.’ 
Shortly after this lecture Sir John F. W- 
Herschel wrote to Owen, protesting against his 
spelling of ‘ dinornis,’ as obscuring its derivation 
from the Greek Ssivds. 
Collingwood : February 14, 1844- 
‘ Dear Sir, — ... I saw in the “ Athemeum 
some notice of your researches on the extinct 
struthious birds and of the dinornis. IMay I be 
