102 WOODWARD: PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD OWEN, K.C.B. 



striatus, supra aperturam sulcatus ; apertura piriformis, basi 

 angulato, effusa; lamella supera parva, vertical is ; lamella 

 in/era ccqualls ct oblique intra ns : lunella fiblaris, a rata fa : plica 

 principalis longa, tenuis, fere ad labium proditctus : perist 

 album, liberum, continuum, umiique paulo txpansum. Long. 30 

 millim., lat. 5 \ millim. Apert. long. 5^ mill int., lat. 4^ millim. 



Habitat : New Granada. 



This species may he distinguished from 

 CI. Dohrni, Pfr., hy its being more inflated in 

 the middle: by its lamella supera and lamella 

 infera being of the same size, instead of the 

 lamella supera being much larger; by the 

 shape of the mouth ; and by the lip not being 

 so much reflected. Type in the British 

 Museum. 



PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD OWEN, K.C.B., 



M.D., D.C.L., LL.D, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., V.P.Z.S., 



Pres. Pal., Soc. Assoc. Inst. France. 



By Dr. II. WOODWARD. I.R.S., I.O.S.. 

 British Museum [Natural History), London. 



There has lately passed away in the quiet retirement of Sheen 

 Lodge, Richmond Park, in his 89th year, the greatest comparative 

 anatomist of this country, a giant among men of science, and the 

 only man who could claim to have carried on, since the death of 

 the illustrious Cuvier in 1S32, those researches in extinct foims of 

 animal life which Cuvier had so ably initiated in Paris in the earlier 

 years of this century. 



Richard Owen was born at Lancaster on the 20th July, 1804, 

 just four years after Cuvier had been made Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy in the College de France in Paris. After leaving school, 

 Owen was sent to Edinburgh University, where he matriculated in 

 1824, and having duly passed his medical examinations, he came to 

 London and was admitted a member of the Royal College of 



