RECEPTION OF LIVINGSTONE'S REMAINS.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 1, 9 July 1874, Page 3

RECEPTION OF LIVINGSTONE'S REMAINS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer, the Malwa, arrived at Southampton with the body of Dr. Livingstone on Wednesday, 17th April. Dr. M,ffat, Liv- i ingstone's father-in-law, and Thomas and ; W. Oswell Livingstone, sons of the deceased, the committee of the Royal Geographical "Society, several leading and representative personages, and a large number of scientific bodies were present. The body was forwarded to London at once lor the funeral which, took place on the 18th of April. The spot selected by Dean Stanley as the resting-place of Livingstone in Westminster Abbey is midway down the <outh ! side of the nave, and just, in front of the portal which leads from the west cloisters, ' and is known r aB the Cannons 1 . gate. This part of the abbey, where the marble flooring has been raised to make a grave for Livingstone, ig but a few paces from the vault in which the coffin of "the American philanthropist, Peabody, was laid for a short time, previous to its embarkation. On the opposite side of th / nav«, somewhat nearer the choir, is a monument erected to Thomas Livingstone, Viscount Teviot, who died in the early part of last century. Soon after '{he arrival of the r v m 4 las of Dr> Li vingBtpne at the rooms of the Royal Geographic*! Society, an examination was made by Sir William Fergusson, in the presence, of Dr., Kirk, Dr. Loudon, of Hamilton, a former friend and professional attendant,- the Rev. Dr. Moffat, ; Horaee Walltr, and Mri F. Webb, of Newstead Abbey. The remains were much de- : composed, but the.cohdttion of the left'arm '■". bone, in which there hkd been a united i fracture, the result of a bite of a lionJoyer < *J irt y« y, eari agOr was so clear, Tt'hat the identification of the body was placidijevond , doubt.—Mel. VLeader/ -; i -V '] ~'" "