Length10h 57m
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Excerpt: "At a garden party at Lord Leven's, in Roehampton Lane, I saw Professor Owen or "Old Bones" (as he was irreverently nicknamed), and, struck with his antediluvian incongruity amidst the beautiful surroundings of the garden, and the children there, I resolved to caricature him. Impressing his strange and whimsical face upon my memory, I returned home and at once conveyed my impressions to paper. I "caught" him in his best clothes, with the tall white hat, which made a contrast to his florid face; it is hardly one's idea of a garden party "get up" as will be seen by the boots. I suppose some eccentricity must be forgiven in the light of his genius, for "Old Bones" was a man, and a scientist, of prodigious activity. There was no end to his works—especially their titles, of which,[93] for instance, "On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Animals," is a fair example; while "Memoir on a Gigantic Sloth," has possibilities. He belonged to innumerable societies, geological, zoological, chirurgical, and so forth; and he was, as Vanity Fair described him, "a simple-minded creature, although a bit of a dandy.""
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length10 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 14, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ILLUSTRATIONS
11CHAPTER X
2CHAPTER I
12CHAPTER XI
3CHAPTER II
13CHAPTER XII
4CHAPTER III
14CHAPTER XIII
5CHAPTER IV
15CHAPTER XIV
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6CHAPTER V
16CHAPTER XV
7CHAPTER VI
17CHAPTER XVI
8CHAPTER VII
18CHAPTER XVII
9CHAPTER VIII
19POSTSCRIPT.
10CHAPTER IX
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