1872-82 
APTORNIS OWENII 
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CHAPTER VIII 
1872-1882 
Third Visit to Egj'pt, 1873 — Death of Mrs. Owen, May 1873 — Com- 
panion of the Bath — Robert Lowe — Earl Russell —Fourth Visit 
to Egypt, 1874 — George Eliot and G. H. Lewes, 1876 — The 
Emperor of Brazil, 1877 — Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1878 — 
‘Specimens of my Correspondence’ — Opening of the New 
Museum, 1881 — Mr. Ruskin — Lord Tennyson. 
In January 1872 Owen received a letter from Dr. 
Julius von Haast, announcing the discovery of 
the remains of Aptornis ozvemi in the sw’amp 
at Glenmark, New Zealand. This letter he com- 
municated to the Zoological Society, January i6. 
There appeared this year also Part XIX. 
‘ On Dinornis,’ containing descriptions of a new 
genus of large wingless bird, Dromornis mistralis 
(Owen), from a post-tertiary deposit in Queens- 
land, Australia.^ 
Owen spent the August of- 1872 at Braemore 
(Mr. Fowler’s). Writing to his wife, he says : — 
^August 5. — Got up at 5 A.M., and drove to 
the head of the loch, and there w'e got on board a 
screw steamer. The colour of the lake and sky 
was like that of the Bay of Naples. Medusae 
* Trans. Zool. Soc., viii. pt. vi. 
