48 PROFESSOR OWEN CH. ii. | 
I 
review describing the air-vessels of the gannet,* j 
and also in some other periodical You may 
suppose what pleasure such things give me ! ’ 
In a somewhat later letter she says : — 
‘ I am sure you will be looking for a line from 
your mother, so I avail myself of this opportunity 
of sending you a letter. 
‘ I sincerely hope you have got throxigh the 
difficult task of describing the finny tribe, ser- 
pents, &c., and that your avocations will not | 
deprive you of taking the air and proper exercise 
so essential to health. I have been much in- ' 
terested with your Catalogue, which I have had 
great pleasure in perusing I long to see , 
your account of the Orang*^ when it comes out 
in full. We were much amused with the corre- 
spondence on the subject. I hope you will be 
properly paid for what you are to write on those 
beautiful birds of Captain B.’s’’ for the Zoological. 
. . . Present my kindest respects to Mr. and Mrs. 
and Miss Clift. . . .’ 
In this year, while Owen was engaged on his 1 
Catalogue of the Hunterian Collections, and in the 
private practice which he had started in Cook’s 
Court, he had the good fortune to make Cuvier’s 
acquaintance ; for it was in 1830 that Baron 
Cuvier paid his last visit to England. This visit, 
Gannet {Stila bassana) was finished shortly after this 
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1S31, p. 90. letter. , 
“ This paper, begun in 1830, ’ Captain Beechey. | 
