CONTENTS 
OF 
THE SECOND VOLUME 
CHAPTER I 
1855-56 
The Phosnix — The Crystal Palace at Sydenham Juror of the 
Universal Exhibition at Paris— Knight of the J-egion o 
Honour 1855— Superintendent of the Natural Histo y 
Department of the British Museum— Death of his bister, 
Grace Owen— Cardinal Wiseman, Dr. and Mrs. Living- 
stone, 1856 
CHAPTER 11 
1856-81 
Owen’s Scheme for a Natural History Museum 
and Plan, 1859— Parliamentary Commission of 
i860— The Plan negatived— The Plan adopted by . • 
Gladstone — Again rejected by the House of Commons 
1862 — Purchase of a New Site for the propose i 
sanctioned by Parliament in 1863 — The Completion o 
New Museum, 1881 
