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diately, although it is now near twenty years since 
he took leave of me in the College museum, 
where, as a young medical missionary, he called 
for instruction as to observing and collecting 
natural history. He has not been able, poor 
fellow, to do much in that way : his chief zoolo- 
gical experience being the grip of his left arm 
by a lion, which he had wounded with his pistol. 
The arm was broken and badly set.’ 
In a letter written not long after he narrates an 
incident which happened to Mrs. Livingstone and 
himself, which evidently entertained him vastly : — 
‘ After the lecture [by Livingstone at the 
Society of Arts], Colonel Sykes asked me if I had 
a ticket for the Photographic Soiree at King’s 
College. I had ; so had he ; and as each ticket 
admitted two, he took the Doctor, and /, Mrs. 
Livingstone. It was a dress assembly in the 
grand hall. Mrs. L., with a straw-bonnet of 1846, 
and attired to match, made a most singular excep- 
tion to the brilliant costumes. Who can that 
odd woman be that Professor O. is taking round 
the room and paying so much attention to ? I 
caught sight of Will’s countenance {he and Carry 
had gone with Dr. Farre, before 1 arrived). 
Disgust and alarm most strongly portrayed. He 
could not conceive what badly dressed house- 
maid I had picked up to bring to such a place ! 
Carry equally mystified. The extraordinary 
scrutinies of many fine ladies as they shrank, at 
