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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V. 
Lord Russell and I returned by the same train 
home. ’ 
In June Owen read a paper atthe Royal Society 
On the Cavern of Rruniquel and its Human Re- 
mains. W riting to his sisters on the subject of 
these remains, he says : ‘ The case contained skulls 
and othei bones of the men who made flint tools, 
and by means of these made weapons and imple- 
ments out of the bones and horns of the deer and 
oxen they kdled and ate. The deer were reindeer, 
the oxen a gigantic extinct kind which we call Bos 
pi I'lHigeutus . Of the flint and bone Implements 
there are thousands, all got out of the cave, which 
must have been inhabited for generations by this 
primaeval race of men. They even made needles 
of bone, so perfect you might hem with them.’ 
Some years previously Professor Owen had 
delivered a lecture to the Young Men’s Christian 
Association at Exeter Hall ‘ On some Instances 
of the Power of God as manifested in His Animal 
Creation.’ Certain statements in this lecture ap- 
parently gave offence to the Committee of Pub- 
lication, for its publication was cancelled. It 
appeared, however, this year (1864) as ‘ Instances 
of the Power of God, &c.,’ 12 mo. 
Professor Owen defended himself In a lecture 
given at Leeds, In which he says : ‘ If the letter 
killeth and the spirit giveth life, . . . how deeply 
ought we to be concerned in more fully and clearly 
delivering the religious truths which we accept 
