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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VII. 
CHAPTER VII 
1869-71 
First Visit to Egypt, 1869— Lecture on the ‘ Scientific and Literary 
Results of the last Nile Expedition,’ 1870 — Second Visit to 
Egypt, 1870-71 — Braemore and Carlyle, 1871— Refusal of Presi- 
dency of Geological Society — Snake-charming. 
In 1869 Owen paid his first visit to Egypt. He 
could scarcely have made such an expedition 
under circumstances more favourable to sight- 
seeing, for, at the instance of the late Duke of 
Sutherland, he was invited to join the Prince of 
Wales’s party. In communicating his plans to 
his sister Maria, January 3, 1869, he says : ‘ My 
medical friends have strongly urged me to 
pass January and February in a milder climate, 
and, this coming to the ears of the Duke of 
Sutherland, he communicated to me a gracious 
intimation that I should join the Prince and 
Princess of Wales’s party to Egypt. The expedi- 
tion is under the direction of Sir Samuel Baker 
(Nile discoverer) and Mr. Fowler, who is to 
inspect the Suez Canal and explain the works, 
and who is ordered with me to embark along with 
Sir Samuel in the steamer from Marseilles to 
