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PROFESSOR OWEN 
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information about his stay, beyond mentioning 
that Mr. Gladstone sang two songs, and that he 
had had some conversation with Sir Stephen 
Glynn and Miss Burdett-Coutts, and that they had 
‘ a pleasant chatty dinner and evening.’ 
His lectures at Buckingham Palace were still 
bearing fruit. He was now called upon to de- 
scribe the Dicynodont reptiles and the fossil 
remains collected in South Africa by H.R.H. 
Dicynodon lacerticeps (Owen). 
Skull of a primuive reptile from the Karoo formation of Cape 
1 j ^ e vidence of a new order of animals deter- 
mined and described by Owen. I natural size 
Prince Alfred. 2 Sir C. B. Phipps wrote the follow- 
ing letter by command of the Queen in acknow- 
ledgment of the paper : — 
Windsor Castle : October 8, 1862. 
‘ My dear Professor Owen,— The Queen has 
commanded me to return you Her Majesty’s best 
thanks for your paper upon the fossils collected in 
South Africa by Prince Alfred, which you have 
This description was pub- Transactions of the Royal 
hshed in the Philosophical Society. 
