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FULLERIAN LECTURES 
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CHAPTER IV 
1860-61 
Natural History Lectures at Buckingham Palace — Ascent of the 
Cime de Jazi — Edition of Hunter’s MSS., 1861 — Lord J. 
Russell — M. Du Chaillu — Popular Lecturing — Death of his 
sister Catherine — Death of the Prince Consort. 
‘ I BEGAN my Fullerian course to a crowded audi- 
ence at the Royal Institution last Tuesday,’ Owen 
'''rites to his sister (January 14, i860); ‘but, 
ns my voice was still a little affected by cold, 
^ gave them only three-quarters of a lecture, and 
stayed at home all the next day.’ 
Owen had some years previously made the 
Acquaintance of Jenny Lind (Mme. Goldschmidt), 
"'ho was at that time residing at Wimbledon. On 
January 14 Owen and his wife met M. and Mme. 
Goldschmidt at Sheen House, then occupied by 
Joshua Bates. Thackeray was also one of 
'•he party, and ‘ an American who must have been 
’•he model of Dickens’s- Jefferson Brick — a little 
^cd-haired, self-sufficient youth in spectacles, 
during dinner there was a sharp exchange of 
shots all round on the subject of the abolition of 
'^he slave trade, or of at least ameliorating the con- 
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