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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. II. 
is mooted in Mr. Darwin’s book is far beyond the 
small class expressly concerned in scientific re- 
search.’ 
Among many other interesting suggestions 
made by Owen before this committee we find that 
he considered that those in charge of national 
museums should be occasionally sent on a visit of 
inspection to similar institutions abroad, and inti- 
mated that these visits should be made at the indi- 
vidual’s own expense and in his own time. 
The rejection of his scheme by the Govern- 
ment which considered that a supplementary 
exhibition gallery to the British Museum was all 
that was reasonably required, caused Owen con- 
siderable grief and mortification. But he says • ‘ I 
now feel grateful that the sole responsibility of 
the author of the “ Report and Plan ” is attested in 
the pages of a work ^ which will last as lono- as 
an may possibly outlast, the great legislative 
organisation whose debates and determinations 
are therein authoritatively recorded. 
I was not, however, cast down, nor did I lose 
either heart or hope. I was confident in the 
va idity of the grounds of my appeal, and foresaw 
m ^ the inevitable accumulations year by year the 
evidence^ which would attest its soundness and 
make plain the emergency of the proposed remedy ’ 
Moreover, there was one who, though not a 
naturalist, had devoted more time, pains, and 
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