78 BIOGRAPHIES OF SCIENTIFIC MEN 



hyrax, brachiopoda, cheetah, hornbill, lion, tiger, touraco, 

 amphibia, etc. 



In 1834 Owen was appointed Professor of Comparative 

 Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and elected F.E.S. 

 On 20th July 1835, on the thirty-first anniversary of his 

 birth, he married Caroline Clift, the daughter of the 

 curator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. 



In 1836 he was appointed Hunterian Professor at the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, a position which he held for 

 nineteen years. He also succeeded his father-in-law at 

 the Royal College. 



So much scientific work was entrusted to him that he 

 had no time for practice as a medical man. Accordingly, 

 he gradually withdrew from it, and devoted himself 

 wholly to the labours in which he had already given 

 evidence of an original and powerful genius. His industry 

 was untiring, and in every publication he gave fresh proofs 

 for penetrating insight and a capacity for far-reaching 

 generalization. 



Between 1833-40 he completed, in five volumes, the 

 catalogue of the specimens in the Hunterian collection ; 

 and in 1853 appeared in two volumes the catalogue of 

 the osteological specimens; in 1855, in three volumes, 

 that of the fossil vertebrates and cephalopods. In 1840-45 

 he issued Odontography, a work in which he brought 

 together a vast amount of observations on the structure 

 of the teeth. Owen's lectures at the Royal College were 



