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to the Th6tre Frai^ais, but did not stay to the end of 

 the performance, stating that " the statue of Voltaire in 

 the salle was worth all the money." 



In 1832 Owen published his famous Memoir on the 

 Pearly Nautilus, " which placed its author, at a bound, in 

 the front rank of anatomical monographers," says the late 

 Professor Huxley. "There is nothing better in the 

 Memoir es sur les Mollusques ; I would even venture to 

 say nothing so good ; . . . certainly in the sixty years 

 that have elapsed since the publication of this remarkable 

 monograph, it has not been excelled." The Pearly Nautilus 

 (Nautilus pompilus) is interesting not only on its own 

 account, but because of the large number of its fossil allies, 

 and Owen won for himself an honourable place among 

 naturalists by the masterly way in which he explained its 

 structure and affinities. In his work he demonstrated 

 for the first time the structure of the extinct group of 

 cuttle-fishes to which the ammonites belonged, and to this 

 his Memoir forms one of the classics of palaeontology. It 

 was translated into French by Milne Edwards, and into 

 German by Oken. 



Between 1831-34 Owen published thirty-seven papers, 

 besides the catalogues of the Hunterian collection ; these 

 include papers on the anatomy and osteology of the 

 orang-outang, beaver, suricate acouchy, Tibet bear, 

 garmet, armadillo, seal, kangaroo, tapir, crocodile, stoma- 

 podous Crustacea, ceropithecus, ariel toucan, flamingo, 



