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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VIII. 
from the London Clay of Sheppey, which he 
named Odontoptei'yx touapicus. This was one of 
four birds which he had from time to time made 
known from this geological period. 
In January 1874 we find Owen for the fourth 
time wintering in Egypt. 
Writing from Cairo to his sister, he says : 
‘ I often thought of you at your quiet fireside 
on my journey, wondering how I could have been 
beguiled into undertaking some thousand miles of 
land and sea at my time of life. Well, it will be 
the last, and it must be a strong lever which will 
again dislodge me from home. Yet, now that the 
journey’s over, I feel it to be well worth being 
here. E. W. Cooke, R.A., is one of our fellow- 
travellers, and we joined Carl Haag, Frank 
Dillon, and other artists here.’ 
Owen saw a good deal of Carl Haag at Cairo. 
After the voyage the artist presented him with a 
water-colour that he had painted there of a 
Nubian standing with a pitcher, in an Egyptian 
landscape, with the inscription ; — 
