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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VI. 
name ; he was a lecturer to factory and other 
wage people.’ 
This year appeared Owen's account of the 
packet of bones sent him in 1865 by the Bishop of 
Mauritius : ‘ Memoirs on the Dodo,’ 4to ; ‘ Evi- 
dence of a large Parrot contemporary of the 
Dodo [Psittacus niaiiritimms) ’ (‘ Trans. Zool. 
Soc.’) ; ‘ The Anatomy of the Aye- Aye ’ (‘ Trans. 
Zool. Soc.,’ vol. V. p. 33) ; and last, but not least. 
Parts IX., X., XL, and XII. ‘On Dinornis,’ 
which appeared in ‘ Trans. Zool. Soc.,’ vols. v. 
and vi. 
In January 1867 Professor Owen wrote and re- 
ceived many letters on the subject of the marriage 
of his only son, which took place on the 5th. To 
his friend Mr. White Cooper he says: ‘You 
may be sure we bore off in triumph what I think 
the most tasteful of all the gifts that were contri- 
buted to what we called the “ International Ex- 
hibition.” Fora thorough winter’s morning nothing 
could be brighter : the whole park was frosted like 
a gigantic bride-cake, the sun shone at its best 
between eleven and twelve, and our little church, 
with its Xmas ornaments and painted windows, 
looked decked for a wedding. A charming sister of 
the bride, set. sixteen, was bridesmaid. I returned 
to a rich and tasteful wedding breakfast at Percy 
Lodge, and the happy pair rode off in a shower of 
old shoes.’ 
Among those who wrote to congratulate him 
