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‘ 17/i. — One of the dingos escaped.’ 
With these subjects ready for dissection, and 
his Hunterian Lectures, which began on April 21, 
Owen had his time fully occupied. The subject 
of the lectures this year was, ‘ The Comparative 
Anatomy of the Generative Organs and the 
Development of the Ovum and Fcetus in the dif- 
ferent Classes of Animals.’ 
With regard to the dissection of animals dying 
at the Gardens, there was some discussion at this 
time. 
‘On June 3,’ the diary records, ‘ affairs were 
settled satisfactorily at the Zoological Council on 
the question of the dissection of animals. R. had 
asked Sir P. Egerton, Lord Braybrooke, and 
others to attend that meeting. He himself could 
only look in at the fag end, as he had been at a 
committee meeting at the College. By the time 
he arrived he found that an order had been 
entered to the effect that the Hunterian Professor 
should be allowed to dissect whenever and what- 
ever he liked when death occurred at the Gardens, 
and that he is to have precedence over any other 
person.’ 
As soon as the Hunterian Lectures were off 
his hands for the season, we find Owen collecting 
materials for the second part of his report on 
British Fossil Reptiles, which was read before 
the British Association in 1841. That he .spared 
no trouble over this is shown from the following 
