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FINAL RESTING-PLACE. 
the humerus in each might have been perfect ; if one or 
both had been broken during life it would have united 
again in such a manner that a tyro could easily have 
detected the peculiarity. The condition of ununited frac- 
ture in this locality is exceedingly rare. I say this from 
my personal professional experience, and that such a speci- 
men should have turned up in London from the centre of 
Africa, excepting in the body of Dr. Livingstone, where it 
was known by competent authorities to have existed, is 
beyond human credibility. It must not be supposed by 
those who arc not professionally acquainted with this kind 
of lesion — which often causes so much interest to the 
practical surgeon — that a fracture and new joint of the 
kind now referred to could have been of recent date or 
made for a purpose. There were in reality all the indica- 
tions which the experienced pathologist recognizes as in- 
fallible, such as the attenuated condition of the two great 
fragments (common under such circumstances), and the 
semblance of a new joint, but actually there was a small 
fragment detached from the others which bore out Living- 
stone’s own view that the bones had been ‘crushed into 
splinters.’ Having had ample opportunity of examining 
the arm during life, and conversing with Livingstone on 
the subject, and being one of those who entertained hopes 
that the last reports of Livingstone’s death might, like 
others, prove false, I approached the examination with an 
anxious feeling regarding this great and most peculiar 
crucial test. The first glance at the left arm set my mind 
at rest, and that, with the further examination, made me as 
positive as to the identity of these remains as that there 
has been among us in modern times one of the greatest 
men of the human race — David Livingstone.” 
THE FINAL RESTING PLACE. 
On Saturday, April 18th, 1874, the body of the great 
explorer was borne, amid testimonies of profound respect 
from great numbers of people, to its final home in W est- 
minstor Abbey. 
