CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME [13] 



CHAPTER VIII 



1845 



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Owen's Opinion of the 'Vestiges of Creation' — His Descrip- 

 tive Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia — Election to ' The 

 Club '—Refusal of the Offer of Knighthood— Visit to 

 Turner, the Painter — Meeting of the Italian Naturalists 

 at Naples 248 



CHAPTER IX 



1846-47 



Owen's Proposal of a National Collection of Fossil and 

 Recent Comparative Anatomy — The British Association 

 at Southampton, 1846, and at Oxford, 1847 — Literary 

 Work— The Rajah of Sarawak at 'The Club,' 1847— 

 Member of the Commission of Sewers — Foundation of the 

 Palaeontological Society, 1848 272 



CHAPTER X 



1848-49 



' The Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton, 3 

 1848— The Cuming Shell Collection— The Great Sea 

 Serpent — Emerson and Guizot — Literary Work and Lec- 

 tures — Death of Mr. and Mrs. Clift, 1849 — Prince 

 Charles Lucien Bonaparte — Member of the Commission 

 on Smithfield Market 309 



CHAPTER XI 

 1850-51 



The Megatherium — Preparations for the Great Exhibition of 

 1 85 1 — The Smithfield Commission — Additions to the 

 Zoological Gardens — Juror of Awards at the Exhibition — 

 Visit to Parisat the Invitation of the President of the 



