PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. IV. 
II4 
only from what I see in reviews. . . . The flesh 
of a fat eland has upset the whole party of about 
seventy persons ; this may have given rise to the 
feeling that they may be better after domesti- 
cation. It is an old complaint against the meat, 
however. A she-giraffe is very much better, but 
good English roast beef beats them all. . . . 
‘ Ever affectionately yours, 
‘ David Livingstone.’ 
On January 21, 1861, Professor Owen began 
his course of Fullerian Lectures for the season, 
and on the 8th of the following month he resumed 
his lectures at the School of Mines, Jermyn 
Street, on ‘ Reptilia.’ 
H is edition of Hunter’s papers had now been 
published. ‘ On the 28th,’ he writes to his 
sister Eliza, ‘ I had a very pleasant dinner at Sheen 
House, meeting the American Minister and his 
family, who seem rather low at the thoughts of 
returning to private life in i6oth Street, Phila- 
delphia. . . . To-morrow, after lecture, I dine and 
sleep at Henry Cole’s, who “ wets ” his “ silk ” with 
a few friends. I had much conversation with the 
young Comte de Paris on Monday at the Geo- 
graphical dinner. ... I called on Van Voorst 
the other day, and received 200/. for my edition 
of Hunter’s posthumous papers, just out.’ 
One of the first people to whom Owen sent n 
copy was Thomas Bell, who wrote him the fob 
