1846-47 
AWARDED THE ‘ROYAL MEDAL’ 
291 
‘ I’jth . — Richard to the Royal Society, where 
they had voted him the Royal Medal for his paper 
on Belemnites. He was in the chair at the last 
nieeting when it was proposed, and demurred 
because it put him in an awkward position. After 
some discussion he was requested to retire from 
the room for a few moments, and Dr. Roget 
having again proposed the belemnites, R. found 
On his return that the medal was voted to him. 
The fact of his paper being recommended for the 
medal while he himself was in the chair might 
look strange to those who were not aware of the 
tacts of the case.’ 
His co-medallist was Mr. Leverrier, to whom, 
for his discovery of the new planet, was awarded 
the Copley Medal. 
On December 12 Owen sent to the printers 
^ work in which is embodied the manuscript of 
ais ‘ Vertebrate Animals.’ This was an octavo 
t^olume, and consisted of his Hunterian Lectures 
On the subject. In this year also one of his more 
Important papers was the description of a true 
fossil monkey {Jkfacacus pliocemis) from the Plei- 
iitocene deposit of Grays, Essex, a note on which 
he had previously presented to the Institute of 
h^rance. 
The last evening of the year 1846 he spent at 
^ large children’s party, where he went in company 
'‘'^ith Lyell and Babbage, the latter of whom he 
describes as ‘ looking beaming throughout.’ 
