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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V. 
I shall be glad of as a means of thanking Mr. 
Young, whose kindness to the expedition through- 
out has been very great. Among the skins is one 
of a young crocodile, and it will be followed by 
two more young ones preserved in spirit. I find 
many things sadly injured from wet ; they lay at 
Mozambique, having been left to take their chance 
after they had gone out of my hands. 1 learn 
from the owners that the vessel in which I ex- 
pected the remainder of the specimens of 1862 
and 1863 will be here in January or February.’ 
The other specimens came from M. Du Chaillu. 
i The French hunter, on his finst visit to England, 
was severely if not rancorously attacked by cer- 
tain persons in London, who refused to believe 
the story of his travels, and even went so far as 
to deny that he had ever seen a live gorilla. 
Though Owen, Murchison, and most of the lead- 
ing scientific men stood staunchly by him, it was 
impossible that Du Chaillu, a young man and a 
foreigner, should not feel their taunts keenly. As 
the best means of proving his own veracity, he, 
in 1864, returned to the Gaboon, and in due 
course sent to England a fresh consignment of 
dead gorillas and one living one, which only 
survived a short time. 
In October 1864, Sir Roderick Murchison 
wrote Professor Owen the following letter from 
Torquay with regard to M. Du Chaillu: — 
‘ . . . I have had a charming letter from Dn 
