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THE PEARLY NAUTILUS 
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the masters in natural science. If their opinion 
he favourable, how amply will my pains be re- 
tvarded ! 
‘ I remain, with much respect, your faithful and 
obliged friend and servant, 
‘ Richard Owen.’ 
Writing to Clift from Oxford, Dr. Buckland 
toakes the following remarks on Owen’s descrip- 
tion of the Pearly Nautilus ; — 
‘ I received safe nearly a month ago Mr. 
^wen’s admirable work on the Nautilus Pompi- 
hus, and am very much obliged by the early com- 
tnunication of it and highly gratified by the most 
^hle and masterly and satisfactory manner in 
t'^hich he has conducted the whole investigation of 
this most interesting animal.’ 
The following letter, written after the publica- 
tion of the ‘ Pearly Nautilus’ by Mr. J. B. Pentland 
to Mr. Clift, and dated from Paris, November 5, 
^832, will show the estimation in which the work 
Was held 
‘ ... We have seen here, but for a moment, your 
friend Mr. Owen’s paper on the Nautilus, one of 
the most interesting additions to natural science 
that has been made for some time. How delighted 
poor Cuvier would have been to peruse it ! But 
alas! 
‘ My own movements are doubtful. I cannot 
ieave Paris until I have completed what I have 
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