ii8 PROFESSOR OWEN CH. iv. 
told her ; and commended my intention to bid 
them a lasting farewell ! I really believe 1 shall 
be able to manage it. How odd that, besides an 
acquaintance with a Bonaparte, spending a week 
at his Palazzo at Rome, with the old Emperor’s 
Longwood furniture in my bedroom, I should come 
to have a letter from a son of Napoleon’s beau 
sabrettr, as he used to call the fiery Murat. 
Some of my scientific relations have brought me 
into such cognizance with one of the family as to 
have procured me this sheet from the would-be 
King of Naples.’ 
In May i86i Professor Owen delivered a 
series of four lectures at Norwich on ‘ Recent 
and Fossil Mammalia.’ These were of a some- 
what elementary description, as may be seen from 
the following extracts from his introductory lec- 
ture ; but they may serve as an example of his 
style of ‘popular’ lecturing. He began by remark- 
ing that all animals were divided into two great 
groups — one in which there was no backbone, and 
no internal hard framework or skeleton, the other 
in which these characteristics existed. The latter, 
which was the higher division, was called the 
vertebrate division. This was divided into other 
divisions ; one-half being of about the same 
temperature as the atmosphere in which they 
lived, while the other half were enabled, by the 
more perfect and complex character of their or- 
ganisation, to preserve a more fixed and definite 
