26 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. II. 



CHAPTER II 



1824-33 



Edinburgh University — Prosector to Abernethy in London — 

 M.R.C.S. and Assistant Curator of the Hunterian Collection 

 at the College of Surgeons, 1826— Lecturer on Comparative 

 Anatomy at St. Bartholomew's, 1828 — Catalogue of the Hunterian 

 Museum, 1830-34 — Introduction to Cuvier — Visit to Paris, 1831 

 — ' Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus, 1832.' 



The terms of Owen's surgical apprenticeship at 

 Lancaster were never carried out to the full. In 

 October 1824 he matriculated at Edinburgh 

 University. Some of his lecture cards of ad- 

 mission are still preserved. We gather from 

 them that he attended Hope's lectures on 

 Chemistry and Pharmacy, James Home's on the 

 Practice of Medicine, John Mackintosh's on 

 Midwifery, Andrew Duncan's on Materia Medica, 

 besides the lectures given by Robert Jameson and 

 W. P. Alison. He also attended the anatomical 

 lectures of Monro (tertius), but as that worthy 

 gentleman was in the habit of lecturing — so Owen 

 has remarked — from the notes used by his grand- 

 father and his father, both of whom had successively 

 occupied the chair of Anatomy before him, these 

 lectures were found to be neither of particular 



