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CHAPTER IV 



1860-61 



Natural History Lectures at Buckingham Palace — Ascent of the 

 Cime de Jazi — Edition of Hunter's MSS., 1861 — Lord J. 

 Russell — M. Du Chaillu — Popular Lecturing — Death of his 

 sister Catherine— Death of the Prince Consort. 



' I began my Fullerian course to a crowded audi- 

 ence at the Royal Institution last Tuesday,' Owen 

 writes to his sister (January 14, i860); 'but, 

 as my voice was still a little affected by cold, 

 I gave them only three-quarters of a lecture, and 

 stayed at home all the next day.' 



Owen had some years previously made the 

 acquaintance of Jenny Lincl (Mme. Goldschmidt), 

 who was at that time residing at Wimbledon. On 

 January 14 Owen and his wife met M. and Mme. 

 Goldschmidt at Sheen House, then occupied by 

 Mr. Joshua Bates. Thackeray was also one of 

 the party, and ' an American who must have been 

 the model of Dickens's Jefferson Brick — a little 

 red-haired, self-sufficient youth in spectacles. 

 During dinner there was a sharp exchange of 

 shots all round on the subject of the abolition of 

 the slave trade, or of at least ameliorating the con- 



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