258 PROFESSOR OWEN CH. ix. 
an abundance of apt quotations and illustrations. 
It was his habit to write such quotations on the 
fly-leaf of his different works. From his own 
interleaved copies the following examples are 
taken at haphazard : — 
In his ‘ British Fossil Mammals and Birds,’ 
for example, there is the appropriate quotation, 
‘ Bones bear witness.’ ^ 
In his work descriptive of the extinct gigantic 
sloth, the Mylodon, he has written : ‘ Framed in 
the prodigality of nature.’ 
In his earliest volume of Flunterian Lectures, 
when he was just starting on his scientific career, 
he has written : ‘ If the Lord will, we shall live, 
and do this or that ’ (James iv. 15). And in a later 
volume of lectures : 
‘ Ut primum inspexi, me non vigilare putavi, 
Luminibusque meis visa neganda fides.’ 
And as another example (‘On the Nature of 
Limbs ’) : olov TrinovOev avv^ 'npo'i ottX^v /cat X^'''P 
Trpos xy}Xrjv (Aristotle). 
‘ Each part may call the farthest brother. 
And hand with foot hath secret amity.' 
The autumn of 1883 found Owen still hard 
at work completing the arrangement of the 
Natural History collections in their new home. 
On September 22 he wrote to Pearson Lang- 
shaw regretting that he could not attend the 
“ Comedy of Errors, iv., 4. 
