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 At a public meeting on 21st January 1893, King Edward (then Prince of Wales) spoke of Owen as follows:—

A marble statue has been erected to the memory of Owen, and it adorns the hall of the Natural History Museum.

Sir Richard Owen rests from his labours, "and with his own right hand he carved his path from obscurity to a scientific throne. He stands among the sceptred immortals."