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leisure in London to studying the science of comparative anatomy in the 

 Hunterian Museum, then under my charge. On taking leave of me he 

 promised to bear me in mind if any particular curiosity fell in his way. 

 Such an one did in the course of his Zambesi travels — the tusk of an elephant 

 with a spiral curve. It was a heavy one ; and you may recall the difficulties 

 of the progress of the weak, sick traveller, on the bullock's back. Every 

 pound weight was of moment ; but Livingstone said, ' Owen shall have this 

 tusk,' and he placed it in my hands in London. (Loud cheers.) 



" In the perusal of the missionary's travels it is impossible not to infer the 

 previous training of a strong and original mind richly and variously stored ; 

 not otherwise could science have been enriched by such precious records of 

 wanderings in a previously untrod field of discovery. Our honoured guest 

 may feel assured that whilst the cultivators of science yield to no class of 

 minds in their appreciation and reverence of his dauntless dissemination of 

 that higher wisdom which is not of this world, such feelings enhance their 

 sense of obligation for his co-operation in the advancement of that lower 

 wisdom which our great poet defines as ' resting in the contemplation of 

 natural causes and dimensions.' (Applause.) 



" Every man to whom it has been given to add to human knowledge 

 looks back with grateful feelings to the school or college where he acquired 

 his elements of the sciences. With the same feeling that Livingstone may 

 recall the old lecture halls at Glasgow, so do I those of Edinburgh. We may 

 both rejoice that the natural sciences have always had so large a share of the 

 teachings in those universities. At the same time we cannot forget that we 

 have both been honoured by a degree from the oldest and most classical 

 university of England." 



At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, subsequent to Living- 

 stone's departure for the Zambesi, Sir Roderick Murchison indicated the 

 objects he had in view, and his fitness for carrying them to a successful issue, 

 in the following : — 



" Having observed in the character of my friend Dr. Livingstone a happy 

 union of simplicity, patience, unruffled temper, and kindness, with quickest 

 perception, and the most undaunted resolution, I feel persuaded that, vast as 

 have been his achievements, he is still destined to confer great advantages 

 upon South Africa and his own country. His aim, when he returns to Kili- 

 mane and Tete, in the spring of 1858, or the first period of the healthy 

 season, and after he has rejoined his old companions the Makololo, who are 

 anxiously waiting for him, will be to endeavour to establish marts or stations 

 beyond the Portuguese colony, to which the inhabitants of the interior may 

 bring their goods for sale, and where they may interchange them for British 

 produce. At these stations, which will be in those flanking, high grounds of 

 the African continent that he has described as a perfect sanatoria, he will en- 



