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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. II. 
CHAPTER II 
1824-33 
Edinburgh University— Prosector to Abernethy in London— 
M.R.C.S. and Assistant Curator of the Hunterian Collection 
at the College of Surgeons, 1826— Lecturer on Comparative 
AnatomyatSt. Bartholomew’s, 1828— Catalogueof the Hunterian 
Museum, 1830-34— Introduction to Cuvier— Visit to Paris, 1831 
— ‘ Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus, 1832.’ 
The terms of Owen’s surgical apprenticeship at 
Lancaster were never carried out to the full. In 
October 1824 he matriculated at Edinburgh 
University. Some of his lecture cards of ad- 
mission are still preserved. We gather from 
them that he attended Hope’s lectures on 
Chemistry and Pharmacy, James Home’s on the 
Practice of Medicine, John Mackintosh’s on 
Midwifery, Andrew Duncan s on Materia Medica, 
besides the lectures given by Robert Jameson and 
P. Alison. He also attended the anatomical 
lectures of Monro (tertius), but as that worthy 
gentleman was in the habit of lecturing—so Owen 
has remarked — from the notes used by his grand- 
father and his father, both of whom had successively 
occupied the chair of Anatomy before him, these 
lectures were found to be neither of particular 
