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the reading of the report, Dr. Buckland acknow- 
ledged Owen’s labours, and the interest with 
which his report had been heard by the audience, 
in very complimentary terms. 
Writing to his sister from Plymouth (40 Park 
Street), Owen says ; ‘ My report gave such satis- 
faction that the Association has voted me 250/. 
for the expense of engraving the drawings, and 
200/. more for another report.’ 
On the loth Owen lectured on Fossil Reptilia 
at Falmouth, and on the 12th he accompanied 
Mr. Conybeare to the Lizard Point, afterwards 
vdsiting St. Michael’s Mount and Penzance. 
But even in the midst of the keen delight he 
always felt in new scenery and the beauties of 
Nature, he still found time to devote to the living 
creatures around him. He writes to Clift from the 
Bath, Penzance, August 18, 1841 : ‘ I setoff after 
breakfast, with a teacup in my hand, to hunt for 
objects for the microscope. Of course a bit of 
seaweed gave me a world of objects, and among 
them a minute transparent species of limpet, 
studded with rows of iridescent azure-green spots, 
apparently full-sized, but no bigger than ^ inch, 
in which I have been counting the pulsations of 
the heart (180 per minute), and watching the 
currents in the veins, and seeing more of the 
living machinery of the mollusc than I ever 
oxpected to see in that class. . . .’ 
After leaving Penzance, Owen and his wife 
