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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. IX. 
nications from his scientific confrcvcs abroad. 
On August 7, 1889, the following teleg ram was 
despatched to him from the Zoological Congress 
which met at Paris on that day : ‘ Congres 
Zoologique exprime son admiration pour vos 
beaux travaux et ses voeux pour la continuation 
dune sante si utile a la science. — Le President, 
Milne Edwards.’ 
To this telegram Owen replied to Professor 
Milne Edwards ; ‘ Be pleased to convey to the 
Congres Zoologique the expression of my deep 
sense of the honour conferred upon me by the 
distinguished members of that scientific body over 
which you so worthily preside, and my deep 
interest in the success of that association for the 
advancement of our common science. — Your faith- 
ful friend and fellow-labourer, Richard Owen.’ 
Other proofs were not wanting that Sir 
Richard’s lifelong labours were not forgotten. 
The gracious permission of Her Majesty the 
Queen that his family should, after his death, con- 
tinue to reside at Sheen Lodge was a recognition 
of his services which afforded him the keenest 
satisfaction. But he was now growing daily more 
feeble in body. Except at his own home, he 
rarely saw his friends. There his Royal neighbours 
in Richmond Park not unfrequently paid him n 
visit, and he often spoke of their constant kind- 
ness to him in terms of much affection. Beyond the 
