ISO PROFESSOR OWEN ch. v. 



by Wolfs coloured drawings of animals. His 

 audience on March 29 included the Queen, 

 the Princesses Helena and Louise, and Princes 

 Arthur and Leopold ; and that of a later lecture, 

 the King of the Belgians. Of this later lecture, 

 Owen has left an account in a letter to his sister 

 Maria, April 5, 1864 : — 



' I was much interested in seeing the good old 

 King of the Belgians walk in ; he bears his height 

 well. Both he and the Queen honoured me with 

 a long conversation after my lecture, asking many 

 questions. The Queen told me they were plagued 

 with toads at Osborne, and that they had the 

 spawn destroyed whenever it could be found near 

 the house. Her Majesty wrote to ask me to give 

 the lecture yesterday at one, instead of three, as 

 <l she should have visitors at that hour." I 

 reached the Castle a little after twelve, and got my 

 diagrams on two large clothes-horses, which were 

 brought into the grand drawing-room assigned for 

 the purpose. As the luncheon hour is two, I 

 made my lecture short, and this left more time 

 for the conversations and questions, about dogs, 

 and the gorilla, and M. Du Chaillu, and whether 

 babes had ever been brought up by wolves, and 

 if such children could speak, and a very amusing 

 variety of chat ; old King Leopold asking many 

 thoughtful questions suggested by the lecture. 

 The Dean of Windsor (Gerald Wellesley), who 

 was present with all the Court, and Highnesses, 



