[12] PROFESSOR OWEN 



CHAPTER IV 



1837-38 



PAGE 



Hunterian Professor and Professor of Anatomy and Phy- 

 siology in the College of Surgeons, 1837 — His Courses of 

 Lectures — Birth of his Son, October 6, 1837 — The British 

 Association at Newcastle, 1838 — Visit to Germany, 1838 — 

 Death of his Mother, November 1838 . . . .105 



CHAPTER V 



1839-40 



Foundation of the Microscopical Society — Reconstruction 

 of the ( Dinornis ' — Corresponding Member of the Insti- 

 tute of France, 1839 — First Part of the Report on British 

 Fossil Reptiles read before the British Association at 

 Birmingham, 1839 — Part I. of the 'Odontography' com- 

 pleted, 1840 _ 143 



CHAPTER VI 



1841-42 



Hunterian Lectures — Progress with ' Odontography ' — British 

 Association at Plymouth, 1841 — Report on British Fossil 

 Mammalia, 1842-43 — Public Dinner in his Honour at 

 Lancaster, 1842 — Offer of a Civil List Pension, 1842 . 179 



CHAPTER VII 



1843-44 



Further Evidence of the Existence of the ' Dinornis ' — Second 

 Series of Hunterian Lectures commenced — Member of 

 the Commission of Inquiry into the Health of Towns, 

 1843-46 — The British Association at York, 1843 — Member 

 of the Literary Club, 1844 — Lecture on the 'Dinornis' at 

 the Royal Institution, 1844 ..,,.. 207 



