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| OWEN | |
| Birth and Parentage—School Life—Apprenticed—Edinburgh University—St Bartholomew's Hospital—Prosector to Abernethy—Mr Clift and the Royal College of Surgeons—Lecturer at St Bartholomew's Hospital—Owen visited Cuvier in Paris—Owen and Voltaire's Statue—Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus—Huxley's Remarks concerning the Memoir—Catalogues of the Hunterian Collection—Professorship—F.R.S.—Marriage—Odontography—Sir William Flower on Owen's Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrates—Dinornis—The History of British Fossil Reptiles—British Fossil Mammalia and Birds—Researches on the Fossil Remains of the Extinct Mammals of Australia—Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand—Oslerism—His Work in Palæontology—Definitions of Analogy and Homology—Darwinism—His Scientific Imagination—Origin of Species—His Work on the Anthropoid Apes, Monotremes, Marsupials, Apteryx, Dodo, Lepidosiren, Toxodon Platensis, etc.—Huxley's Appreciation of Owen's Palaeontological Work—His Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals—His Letters to the Author—Owen and the Natural History Department of the British Museum—Civil List Pension—Honours—K.C.B.—LL.D.—and other Degrees—Medals—Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park (a Royal Residence)—His Character—Herbert Spencer and Darwinianism—Failing Health—Owen's Letter to the Author—Death and Burial—King Edward's Remarks Concerning Owen—Statue of Owen | 75 |
| LIEBIG | |
| Birth—Universities of Bonn and Erlangen—Goethe and German Professors—Became a Pupil of Gay-Lussac—Introduced to Humboldt—Combustion Analysis—Professorship of Chemistry at Giessen University—Liebig and Wöhler on the Cyanates—Professorship at Munich—Hofmann's Eulogy—His Great Work on Agricultural Chemistry—Birth of the Superphosphate Industry—Mineral Theory of Plant Nutrition—Laws of Husbandry—Liebig's Attack on England—Familiar Letters on Chemistry—Made a Baron—Liebig's Definition of a Compound Radicle—Schorlemmer's Definition of Organic Chemistry—Chloroform—Chloral and Aldehyde—Organic Acids and the Doctrine of Basicity—Liebig and Bromine—Liebig and Mistakes—His Books—Honours—Death | 91 |
