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lecturing. After saying that the inhabitants seemed 

 to derive some occult pleasure out of his lecture 

 ' On Birds generally, and Dinornis specially,' he 

 continues : ' Just before going in, the beadle came 

 with Mr. Mayor's compliments, and he was very 

 sorry he could not take the chair, as his wife had 

 died that afternoon, and would I be so good as to 

 let his daughter have my autograph ? Fact ! ! 

 I gravely wrote it and gave it, with due condo- 

 lences, and walked on to the platform.' 



In 1865 Livingstone was again in England, 

 and from an entry in Mrs. Owen's diary we find 

 him on May 14 one of a large party of friends at 

 Sheen Lodge. ' There came Dr. Livingstone and 

 his daughter, now grown up, and going on with 

 her father to Paris ; Charles Halle and his two 

 eldest daughters, Dr. Becker, &c, &c. Halle 

 played several times during the evening. Dr. 

 Becker took away with him the long-guarded cast 

 of Shakespeare's face.' 



'July 4. — R. lunched at the Deanery, West- 

 minster, to meet the Queen of the Netherlands, 

 who talked a good deal on scientific matters, and 

 knows something of the subject. Tennyson and 

 Max Muller were also there.' 



'July 12. — To Nuneham Park (Mrs. V. Har- 

 court). Travelled down with Lady Houghton 

 and her daughter, who were also going there. The 

 election prevented many from coming. The next 

 day we made up a party to go to Oxford, consist- 



