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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VIII. 
of “ Faculty of the Museum,” holding the purse- 
strings of his expenditures, which was not a sine- 
cure. I suppose you know all about his son Alex, 
and his monograph on the “ Acheenodaarms,” ‘ 
as his father used to call them ; also how he went 
up to Fake Superior and got hold of some copper 
mines, which made him and his friends so rich 
that some of them do not know what to do with 
their money. ... I beg your pardon for gossip- 
ping as I have done.’ 
On December 17, at a meeting of the Royal 
Colonial Institute, Owen made a speech on ‘New 
Guinea,’ which was printed in ‘The Colonies,’ 
December 21. 
In May 1879 Owen again delivered a lecture 
at the Colonial Institute on ‘The Extinct Animals 
of the British Colonies. As is well known, he 
always made a point of asking colonial .officials 
and travellers to collect and forward to him as 
many remains as they could procure of the extinct 
animals to be found in the localities which they 
visited Bishops, governors, missionaries, and 
medical men from all parts of the globe worked 
for him in that way. His appeals ‘to be borne in 
mind when the opportunity of collecting such 
fossils might occur (as he writes to a Governor of 
Queensland who had contributed part of the 
materials of h is ‘ Fossil M am mals of Australia ’) were 
‘ Echinoderms. 
