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lowing acknowledgment, dated New Broad Street, 
March I : — 
‘ What thanks do I not owe you for so kindly 
sending me that marvellous book? If anything 
were wanting to place Hunter in the highest po- 
sition of human intellect, and as the rarest com- 
bination of genius and practical observation, this 
Would do it. I never read so full a book. 1 sat 
an hour with Sir Benjamin Brodie the other day, 
and when I went in I found his secretary reading 
this book to him. He asked if I had seen this new 
book of Hunter’s, and said with great emphasis, 
“ It is a marvellous book.” He seems more struck 
with it than I ever saw him with anything before. 
Vour arranging and publishing it has conferred 
a great benefit on the scientific public, whilst it 
bas done justice at last to that great man.’ 
There appeared an amusing cartoon in ‘ Punch’ 
the last week in January, in which Owen is threat- 
ened with being skinned by the South American 
States for giving it as his opinion that Adam and 
Eve were coloured people. 
In February he met the African traveller 
bl. Du Chaillu for the first time, and on the 25 th 
3-ttended his lecture on gorillas at the Great Room 
the Royal Society, at which lecture Ow'en 
^iiade some prefatory remarks on the structure of 
these creatures. Amongst those present was 
Gladstone, and ‘ when the lecture was over,’ 
the Professor writes, ‘and Mr. Gladstone had 
