ii 4 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. iv. 



only from what I see in reviews. , . . The flesh 

 of a fat eland has upset the whole party of about 

 seventy persons ; this may have given rise to the 

 feeling that they may be better after domesti- 

 cation. It is an old complaint against the meat, 

 however. A she-giraffe is very much better, but 

 good English roast beef beats them all. . . . 

 1 Ever affectionately yours, 



' David Livingstone.' 



On January 21, 1861, Professor Owen began 

 his course of Fullerian Lectures for the season, 

 and on the 8th of the following month he resumed 

 his lectures at the School of Mines, Jermyn 

 Street, on ' Reptilia.' 



His edition of Hunter's papers had now been 

 published. ' On the 28th,' he writes to his 

 sister Eliza, ' I had a very pleasant dinner at Sheen 

 House, meeting the American Minister and his 

 family, who seem rather low at the thoughts of 

 returning to private life in 160th Street, Phila- 

 delphia. . . . To-morrow, after lecture, I dine and 

 sleep at Henry Cole's, who " wets " his " silk " with 

 a few friends. I had much conversation with the 

 young Comte de Paris on Monday at the Geo- 

 graphical dinner. ... I called on Van Voorst 

 the other day, and received 200/. for my edition 

 of Hunter's posthumous papers, just out.' 



One of the first people to whom Owen sent a 

 copy was Thomas Bell, who wrote him the fol- 



