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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VIII. 
Paris until to-morrow morning, in order to avail my- 
self of the meeting of the Institute to-day, at which 
Dr. Buckland and I take our seats for the first 
time since our election. Yesterday we went to 
Versailles to pay our respects to Madame Cuvier 
and Sophie. We found the dear venerable lady 
at home. . . . She is rather deaf and shows her 
great age, but the fine features and the benevo- 
lent, intellectual eyes still remain.’ 
Concerning his visit to the Institute, Owen 
writes to his wife : — 
Steamboat on ye Rhone ; September ii [1845]. 
‘ I got up early on Monday morning at Paris, 
wrote off slick a memoir for the Institute, called on 
Flourens, the Sec. at the Garden of Plants, who 
had it forthwith translated, and it was read to a 
large auditory. . . . My communication was on the 
discovery of the fossil monkey ® in the newer ter- 
tiary deposits of Essex, with the extinct elephant, 
rhinoceros, &c., the first ever met with in that 
formation. I exhibited the fossil, and took the 
precaution before the meeting to compare it 
(along with De Blainville) with the large collec- 
tion of monkeys’ skulls in the Jardin des Plantes. 
De B. was quite en accord with me, and they 
regard the matter here as tres important. Buck- 
land, Pentland, and I met Elie de Beaumont, 
Omalius d’Halloy, and some distinguished 
^ Macaciis pUocenus, Owen ; British Fossil Mammals, 1846, 
p. xlvi. 
