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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VIII. 
reddish yellow with purple shadows in which the 
artist delights, and it is painted with all the 
sculptured accuracy that is familiar to us in Mr. 
Hunt’s religious subjects. None the less is it a 
fine portrait and also a fine likeness.’ 
In the same year Mr. Hamo Thornycroft ex- 
hibited a bust of Owen. In a letter to the writer 
he mentions how exemplary a sitter the Professor 
was. ‘ He was good enough,’ he writes, ‘to give 
me about a dozen sittings for the portrait bust. 
His very charming and genial manner, as he sat 
and told me anecdotes of men long past Turner 
and Chantrey made these occasions very delight- 
ful and interesting to me. I modelled the bust in 
1880, but the marble was not exhibited in the 
Academy until 1881.’ 
On April 6 Owen went to Folkestone in order 
to unveil a statue of William Harvey. In memory 
of this occasion the Mayor and Corporation of 
that borough presented him with a copy of 
Harvey’s works. Under the title of ‘ Experi- 
mental Physiology’ (1884), we have, in an 
amplified form, and with various additions, the 
substance of the address which Owen delivered 
there. 
Until 1883 the Professor was almost daily at 
the new Museum, where there was still much to 
be done. With regard to the skeleton of the 
whale which now stands in the entrance hall, he 
writes to Mr. A. Waterhouse, July 31, 1882 
