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XVI.—RICHARD OWEN AMONG time-honoured sayings there is none the truth of which comes more frequently home to the scientific worker than that which reminds him that a prophet is not without honour save in his own country and among his own kin. Its very truth would seem to make it short of impossible for us to take full cognisance of our own Scientific Worthies. The subject of this notice, still in hale strength, though now in full years and full of honours, is however in a very great measure an exception to the above proverb. Foreign men of science and foreign countries when they came to offer him their rewards found him already decorated. That a life abounding in labour, some of the results of which will remain as the heritage of mankind, was not undeserving of human recompense the following lines will abundantly show.
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Scientific Worthies . Nature 22, 577–579 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022577a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/022577a0