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the masters in natural science. If their opinion 

 be favourable, how amply will my pains be re- 

 warded ! 



' I remain, with much respect, your faithful and 

 obliged friend and servant, 



• Richard Owen.' 



Writing to Clift from Oxford, Dr. Buckland 

 makes the following remarks on Owen's descrip- 

 tion of the Pearly Nautilus : — 



' I received safe nearly a month ago Mr. 

 Owen's admirable work on the Nautilus Pompi- 

 lius, and am very much obliged by the early com- 

 munication of it and highly gratified by the most 

 able and masterly and satisfactory manner in 

 which he has conducted the whole investigation of 

 this most interesting animal.' 



The following letter, written after the publica- 

 tion of the ' Pearly Nautilus' by Mr. J. B. Pentland 

 to Mr. Clift, and dated from Paris, November 5, 

 1832, will show the estimation in which the work 

 was held : — 



' . . . We have seen here, but for a moment, your 

 friend Mr. Owen's paper on the Nautilus, one of 

 the most interesting additions to natural science 

 that has been made for some time. How delighted 

 poor Cuvier would have been to peruse it ! But 

 alas ! 



' My own movements are doubtful. I cannot 

 leave Paris until I have completed what I have 



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