J8S7-59 lecturer AT ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES 59 
CHAPTER III 
1857-59 
^scturer on Pateontology— The ‘ Prix Cuvier,’ 1857— Suspected 
of the Authorship of ‘Scenes from Clerical Life’ — Fullerian 
Lrofessor of Physiology, 1857— Address as President of the 
British Association, 1858— Discovery of the Remains of John 
Hunter, 1859 — Foreign Member of the Institute of France— 
Hon. LL.D. of Cambridge, and Rede Lecturer, 1859— The 
British Association at Aberdeen — Succeeded as President by 
the Prince Consort— Literary Work and Lectures— Correspon- 
dence on Darwin’s ‘ Origin of Species.’ 
^ow that the development of the Natural 
history Museum at South Kensington has been 
^faced from the early schemes which Owen formed 
to their practical realisation, it will be neces- 
sary to go back to the year 1857, in order to pick 
the thread of his life and work at that date. 
This year was marked by his appointment as 
Lecturer on Palaeontology at the Royal School 
of Mines, Jermyn Street. His first lecture w’as 
§iven on February 26, at the Museum of Practical 
Leology, and amongst the audience, as an entry 
the diary shows, ‘ were many old friends : Dr. 
Livingstone, Frank Buckland, the Duke of 
■^'"gyll with his sons, Sir Charles Lyell, and Sir 
Roderick Murchison.’ 
