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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. XI. 
Albert, at the Royal Society of Arts, on ‘ Raw 
Animal Products and their Uses in Manufac- 
ture.’ This lecture was published by the Society 
in their volume of lectures on the various classes 
of exhibits. 
Mr. Scott Russell, after the address, made a 
speech, in which he mentioned all that Owen had 
done towards the perfection of the collection of 
raw materials in the Great Exhibition, especially 
how he arranged and compiled the lists and had 
them circulated in foreign countries. 
In July, at the meeting of the British Associa- 
tion at Ipswich, Ow’en delivered an address in the 
Corn Market on ‘ The Distinction between Plants 
and Animals.’ This lecture was of a popular 
character, and soon after its delivery Sir Charles 
Lyell wrote the following letter to Owen, dated 
from Werstead Vicarage : — 
Sir C. Lyell to R. Owen 
‘ My host, the Rev. Barham Zincke, is in such 
a state of enthusiasm about your lecture, which he 
says he would not have missed for loo/., that I 
must tell you before leaving for town that it 
struck me as the most successful effort I have yet 
heard you make in popularising a very abstruse 
subject, and so constantly keeping the grand 
general views in sight that none of the details 
were tedious to anyone. I have sometimes as- 
certained that at the Royal Institution you have 
