CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME [13] 
CHAPTER VIII 
1845 
PAGE 
Owen’s Opinion of the ‘Vestiges of Creation’ — His Descrip- 
tive Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia — Election to ‘The 
Club’ — Refusal of the Offer of Knighthood — Visit to 
Turner, the Painter — Meeting of the Italian Naturalists 
^t Naples .......... 248 
CHAPTER IX 
1846-47 
Owen’s Proposal of a National Collection of Fossil and 
Recent Comparative Anatomy — The British Association 
at Southampton, 1846, and at Oxford, 1847 — Literary 
Work — The Rajah of Sarawak at ‘The Club,’ 1847 — 
Member of the Commission of Sewers — Foundation of the 
Palaeontological Society, 1848 272 
CHAPTER X 
1848-49 
‘ The Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton,’ 
1848 — The Cuming Shell Collection — ^The Great Sea 
Serpent — Emerson and Guizot — Literary Work and Lec- 
tures — Death of Mr. and Mrs. Clift, 1849 — Prince 
Charles Lucien Bonaparte — Member of the Commission 
on Smithfield Market 309 
CHAPTER XI 
1850-51 
The Megatherium — Preparations for the Great Exhibition of 
1851 — The Smithfield Commission — Additions to the 
Zoological Gardens — Juror of Awards at the Exhibition — 
\ isit to Parisat the Invitation of the President of the 
