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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VIII. 
cessor as Editor of “ Fraser ” — a poet whose 
acquaintance I made at Tennyson’s. But it was 
a w'ork of groans, lazy groans perhaps. Quarter- 
lies, also, besiege me, mostly in vain. A life- 
long friendship with Livingstone led me to do his 
“ Last Journals ” in “ The Quarterly.” Murray 
told me Miss Livingstone that was — she, I 
think, is now wedded — asked for the secret of the 
authorship, and I felt well repaid by being told 
that the family liked it better than any other 
notice. Poor dear Livingstone! He brought 
me the tusk of an elephant, twisted like a cork- 
screw, from his first great journey. My best 
remembrances to your good and kind wife. I 
hope we may meet next summer. I am not yet 
bad enough to take flight to Brindisi; but the 
irritation and extra secretion of the “ bronchials ” 
won’t go at my age. 
‘ Believe me, a sympathising but poor 
“ broken reed,” 
‘ Richard Owen. 
‘ P.S.— Our good friend “ Orion’s reve- 
lations of Mrs. B. make me afraid of putting pen 
to paper.’ 
In 1876 Owen brought out a ‘ Descriptive and 
Illustrated Catalogue of the Possil Reptilia of 
^ Review of H. WallePs The 1865 * his Death. 
Last Journals of David Living- T. H. Horne. 
stone in Central Africa., from 
