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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V. 
by Wolf’s coloured drawings of animals. His 
audience on March 29 included the Queen, 
the Princesses Helena and Louise, and Princes 
Arthur and Leopold ; and that of a later lecture, 
the King of the Belgians. Of this later lecture, 
Owen has left an account in a letter to his sister 
Maria, April 5, 1864 : — 
‘ I was much interested in seeing the good old 
King of the Belgians walk in ; he bears his height 
well. Both he and the Queen honoured me with 
a long conversation after my lecture, asking many 
questions. The Queen told me they were plagued 
with toads at Osborne, and that they had the 
spawn destroyed whenever it could be found near 
the house. Her Majesty wrote to ask me to give 
the lecture yesterday at one, instead of three, as 
“ she should have visitors at that hour.” I 
leached the Castle a little after twelve, and got my 
diagrams on two large clothes-horses, which were 
brought into the grand drawing-room assigned for 
the purpose. As the luncheon hour is two, I 
made my lecture short, and this left more time 
for the conversations and questions, about dogs, 
and the gorilla, and M. Du Chaillu, and whether 
babes had ever been brought up by wolves, and 
if such children could speak, and a very amusing 
variety of chat ; old King Leopold asking many 
thoughtful questions suggested by the lecture. 
The Dean of Windsor (Gerald Wellesley), who 
was present with all the Court, and Highnesses, 
