i6o PROFESSOR OWEN CH. vi. 
lecturing. After saying that the inhabitants seemed 
to derive some occult pleasure out of his lecture 
‘ On Birds generally, and Dinornis specially,’ he 
continues ; ‘ Just before going in, the beadle came 
with Mr. Mayor’s compliments, and he was very 
sorry he could not take the chair, as his wife had 
died that afternoon, and would I be so good as to 
let his daughter have my autograph ? Fact ! ! 
I gravely wrote it and gave it, with due condo- 
lences, and walked on to the platform.’ 
In 1865 Livingstone was again in England, 
and from an entry in Mrs. Owen’s diary we find 
him on May 14 one of a large party of friends at 
Sheen Lodge. ‘ There came Dr. Livingstone and 
his daughter, now grown up, and going on with 
her father to Paris ; Charles Halle and his two 
eldest daughters, Dr. Becker, &c., &c. Halle 
played several times during the evening. Dr. 
Becker took away with him the long-guarded cast 
of Shakespeare’s face.’ 
' Jtdy 4. — R. lunched at the Deanery, West- 
minster, to meet the Queen of the Netherlands, 
who talked a good deal on scientific matters, and 
knows something of the subject. Tennyson and 
Max Muller were also there.’ 
‘•Jtdy 12. — To Nuneham Park (Mrs. V. Har- 
court). Travelled down with Lady Houghton 
and her daughter, who were also going there. The 
election prevented many from coming. The next 
day we made up a party to go to Oxford, consist- 
