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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. in 
twisted like a corkscrew and bearing the in- 
scription on a silver plate which is fixed into the 
ivory, ‘From David Livingstone to Richard Owen.’ 
This tusk, which is of considerable weight, the 
Professor could hold out firmly at arm’s length, 
even in old age. There are frequent references 
in the diary to visits which Livingstone paid to 
Sheen Lodge. On one occasion, in the early 
sjDring, Mrs. Owen writes ; ‘ I asked the Doctor 
at dinner the feelings he had when the lion seized 
and crunched his arm, especially whether the 
physical pain was great when the lion bit it again 
and again. He said; “No, not very great. A 
feeling of faintness was most observable.” I 
asked him whether the suffering was greatest 
afterwards. He said : “ By far.” The left arm is 
the injured one : the tendons act well, but the 
bone has not joined properly. It seems, from 
what R. told me afterwards, that there is little 
chance that an operation will succeed. Livingstone 
is going to take advice from Sir Benjamin Brodie 
as to a fresh division of the broken pieces of bones, 
so as to join them again. Dr. Livingstone told me 
he would like to be back in Africa in June at the 
latest, and he is anxious to complete his book before 
that time.’ 
Owen gave as much help as he could to Living- 
stone in looking over his MS., &c. ; but the book 
took him longer than he anticipated. ‘ Poor 
Livingstone,’ Owen writes as late as July 1857, ‘he 
