1841-42 
M. DE BLAINVILLE 
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CHAPTER VI 
1841-42 
Hunterian Lectures — Progress with < Odontography ’ — British 
Association at Plymouth, 1841— Report on ‘ British Fossil 
Mammalia,’ 1842-43 — Public Dinnerinhis Honour at Lancaster, 
1842 — Offer of a Civil-List Pension, 1842. 
Amongst the papers which Owen contributed to 
Various societies in 1841 may be mentioned 
(‘•) ‘ Description of the Remains of Six Species 
of Marine Turtles from the London Clay’ (‘ Pro- 
'^eedings Geological Society ’) : containing in germ 
his ‘ British Fossil Reptiles ; ’ (ii.) ‘ On the Teeth 
of the Genus Labyrinthodon ’ (‘Transactions 
Geological Society ’) ; and (iii.) ‘ On the Genus 
Euplectella aspergillum’ (Venus’ Flower-basket) 
(‘Zoological Transactions’). 
At the end of January 1841 Owen received 
from De Blainville a confirmation of the descrip- 
Hon which he had given nine years before of 
^he pearly nautilus. It is thus recorded in the 
Journal : — 
‘ M. de Blainville writes giving some slight 
ot satisfactory outlines of the anatomy of the 
