43 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. h. 



review describing the air-vessels of the gannet, 5 



and also in some other periodical You may 



suppose what pleasure such things give me ! ' 

 In a somewhat later letter she says : — 

 - I am sure you will be looking for a line from 

 your mother, so I avail myself of this opportunity 

 of sending you a letter. 



' I sincerely hope you have got through the 

 difficult task of describing the finny tribe, ser- 

 pents, &c, and that your avocations will not 

 deprive you of taking the air and proper exercise 

 so essential to health. I have been much in- 

 terested with your Catalogue, which I have had 



great pleasure in perusing I long to see 



your account of the Orang 6 when it comes out 

 in full. We were much amused with the corre- 

 spondence on the subject. I hope you will be 

 properly paid for what you are to write on those 

 beautiful birds of Captain B.'s 7 for the Zoological. 

 . . . Present my kindest respects to Mr. and Mrs. 

 and Miss Clift. . . .' 



In this year, while Owen was engaged on his 

 Catalogue of the Hunterian Collections, and in the 

 private practice which he had started in Cook's 

 Court, he had the good fortune to make Cuvier's 

 acquaintance ; for it was in 1830 that Baron 

 Cuvier paid his last visit to England. This visit, 



5 Gannet (Sulci bassa?ta) was finished shortly after this 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1 83 1, p. 90. letter. 



6 This paper, begun in 1830, 7 Captain Beechey. 



