226 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. vm. 



from the London Clay of Sheppey, which he 

 named Odontopteryx totiapicus. This was one of 

 four birds which he had from time to time made 

 known from this geological period. 



ODONTOPTERYX. 



In January 1874 we find Owen for the fourth 

 time wintering in Egypt. 



Writing from Cairo to his sister, he says : 

 1 I often thought of you at your quiet fireside 

 on my journey, wondering how I could have been 

 beguiled into undertaking some thousand miles of 

 land and sea at my time of life. Well, it will be 

 the last, and it must be a strong lever which will 

 again dislodge me from home. Yet, now that the 

 journey's over, I feel it to be well worth being 

 here. E. W. Cooke, R.A., is one of our fellow- 

 travellers, and we joined Carl Haag, Frank 

 Dillon, and other artists here.' 



Owen saw a good deal of Carl Haag at Cairo. 

 After the voyage the artist presented him with a 

 water-colour that he had painted there of a 

 Nubian standing with a pitcher, in an Egyptian 

 landscape, with the inscription : — 



