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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. 



Amongst the papers which Owen contributed to 

 various societies in 1841 may be mentioned 

 (i.) * Description of the Remains of Six Species 

 of Marine Turtles from the London Clay' (' Pro- 

 ceedings Geological Society') : containing in germ 

 his ' British Fossil Reptiles ; ' (ii.) ' On the Teeth 

 of the Genus Labyrinthodon ' ('Transactions 

 Geological Society ') ; and (iii.) ' On the Genus 

 Euplectella aspergillum' (Venus' Flower-basket) 

 (' Zoological Transactions '). 



At the end of January 1841 Owen received 

 from De Blainville a confirmation of the descrip- 

 tion which he had given nine years before of 

 the pearly nautilus. It is thus recorded in the 

 journal : — 



' M. de Blainville writes giving some slight 

 but satisfactory outlines of the anatomy of the 



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