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1 ijtk. — One of the dingos escaped.' 



With these subjects ready for dissection, and 

 his Hunterian Lectures, which began on April 21, 

 Owen had his time fully occupied. The subject 

 of the lectures this year was, * The Comparative 

 Anatomy of the Generative Organs and the 

 Development of the Ovum and Foetus in the dif- 

 ferent Classes of Animals.' 



With regard to the dissection of animals dying 

 at the Gardens, there was some discussion at this 

 time. 



' On June 3,' the diary records, * affairs were 

 settled satisfactorily at the Zoological Council on 

 the question of the dissection of animals. R. had 

 asked Sir P. Egerton, Lord Braybrooke, and 

 others to attend that meeting. He himself could 

 only look in at the fag end, as he had been at a 

 committee meeting at the College. By the time 

 he arrived he found that an order had been 

 entered to the effect that the Hunterian Professor 

 should be allowed to dissect whenever and what- 

 ever he liked when death occurred at the Gardens, 

 and that he is to have precedence over any other 

 person.' 



As soon as the Hunterian Lectures were oft 

 his hands for the season, we find Owen collecting 

 materials for the second part of his report on 

 British Fossil Reptiles, which was read before 

 the British Association in 1841. That he spared 

 no trouble over this is shown from the following 



