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the reading of the report, Dr. Buckland acknow- 

 ledged Owen's labours, and the interest with 

 which his report had been heard by the audience, 

 in very complimentary terms. 



Writing to his sister from Plymouth (40 Park 

 Street), Owen says : ' My report gave such satis- 

 faction that the Association has voted me 250/. 

 for the expense of engraving the drawings, and 

 200/. more for another report.' 



On the 10th Owen lectured on Fossil Reptilia 

 at Falmouth, and on the 12 th he accompanied 

 Mr. Conybeare to the Lizard Point, afterwards 

 visiting St. Michael's Mount and Penzance. 



But even in the midst of the keen delight he 

 always felt in new scenery and the beauties of 

 Nature, he still found time to devote to the living 

 creatures around him. He writes to Clift from the 

 Bath, Penzance, August 18, 1841 : ' I set off after 

 breakfast, with a teacup in^my hand, to hunt for 

 objects for the microscope. Of course a bit of 

 seaweed gave me a world of objects, and among 

 them a minute transparent species of limpet, 

 studded with rows of iridescent azure-green spots, 

 apparently full-sized, but no bigger than -J- inch, 

 in which I have been counting the pulsations of 

 the heart (180 per minute), and watching the 

 currents in the veins, and seeing more of the 

 living machinery of the mollusc than I ever 

 expected to see in that class. . . .' 



After leaving Penzance, Owen and his wife 



