66 Life of David Dale Owen, M. D. 
oldest son, Robert Dale Owen, there, (subsequently in the U. 
S. the author of several works, member of Congress and U. S. 
Minister at Naples) accompanied by his next brother, William 
who a few years after his emigration to the United States, 
died at New Harmony, Indiana. After they returned from 
their three-year course, Dr. D. D. Owen and his younger broth- 
er Richard Owen were sent there (in 1824) and remained also 
three years. 
The physical training at this institution, consisted in daily 
gymnastics,athletic games,weekly excursions, and in vacations, 
spent in traveling on foot with knapsack and "alpen-stock," 
averaging about twenty miles daily, while traversing each year 
a new portion of Switzerland. The moral education consist- 
ed in the formation of class-circles, for mutual improvement, 
each presided over by a member of the senior class, and meet- 
ing regularly under their leader. These reported to the "gen- 
eral assembly"which was convened at intervals by Mr. Fellen- 
berg, who, besides, met all the students every evening for a 
brief period of opening prayer and invitation to any one who 
desired to make an observation, either bearing on his own 
case or that of a classmate. 
The intellectical course for the more advanced classes, was 
partly optional, and Dr. Owen and brother selected chemistry, 
drawing, and modern languages, inaddition to the usual math- 
ematical and literary course ; on returning to Scotland, Sept. 
1826, they entered the chemical and physical classes of Dr. 
Andrew Ure, lecturer at the Andersonian Institution, in Glas- 
gow, where their mother then resided ; Robert Owen having 
meanwhile emigrated to the United States in order to test his 
social experiment at New Harmony, Indiana. For that place 
Dr. Owen and brother left Liverpool, in a sailing vessel, Nov. 
1827, passing through the West India Islands, and reaching 
New Orleans about the last of December ; thence arriving by 
steamer at New Harmony, early in January, 1828. Here, with 
the chemical appliances which had been brought from Glas- 
gow (purchased when visiting the chemical and glass works 
of that city), the experiments made by Dr. Ure, and which 
had been repeated each day at home in Glasgow, were again 
reviewed, until 1831-2. Up to this time Dr. D. D. Owen and 
his brother, Richard Owen (who afterwards for nine years fill- 
ed the chair of Nat. Science in the Western Military Institute 
