FOOTNOTES:
[68] Mr. Romanes had belonged for many years to the Aristotelian Society, and had contributed papers to the Journal of the Society. He also once belonged to the Psychological Club, which used to meet at Professor Croom Robertson's house. The other members of the club were Mr. Francis Galton, Mr. Sully, Mr. Shadworth Hodgson, Professor Edgeworth, Professor Dunstan, Mr. Edmund Gurney, Mrs. Bryant, and one or two others.
[69] See Thoughts on Religion, p. 92.
[70] The beautiful cemetery adjoining Holywell Church, Oxford.
[71] Dr. Liddon died in September 1890.
[72] The house which Mr. Romanes had taken was originally an almshouse.
[73] The Physiological Society has a yearly meeting at Oxford.
[74] Professor Victor Horsley, F.R.S., Univ. Coll. London.
[75] Professor of Physiology at Oxford.
[76] Professor W. Dunstan, F.R.S.
[77] 'Lights of the Church and of Science.'
[78] Professor Kitchen Parker, F.R.S.
[79] Mr. R. Scott, F.R.S.
[80] The Colours of Animals, by E. B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., International Scientific Series, vol. lxviii.
[81] A beautiful terrier.
[82] Two more dogs.
[83] This was the last summer at Geanies.
[84] Mr. E. B. Turner, F.R.C.S.
[85] Psalm xxvii.
[86] A pet name for his daughter.
[87] He had slipped on the rocks and hurt his arm.
[88] His third son.
[89] On 'Physiological Selection.' See Nature, vol. xlii. pp. 5, 7, and vol. xliii. pp. 79 and 127.
[90] The late Professor Sellar.
[91] The Oxford Natural History Society.
[92] The Astronomer Royal at the Cape and his wife.
[93] The Rev. Bartholomew Price, D.D., F.R.S.
[94] Mr. Gladstone had declined at first, but yielded to a second urgent request from the founder.
[95] The home of Sir William and the Hon. Lady Welby-Gregory.
[96] On the work alluded to in a letter to Professor Schäfer.
[97] The Rev. Philip Napier Waggett, now of Cowley St. John, who was one of Mr. Romanes' most intimate friends, Mr. Waggett's scientific attainments made him a valuable as well as a much loved friend.
[98] The Rev. E. Moore, D.D.
[99] Since this letter has been in type the world has had to lament Mr. Huxley's death.
[100] Privy Councillor.
[101] The proprietor of an hotel in Madeira.
[102] Miss Pollock's marriage to Mr. Vernon Boys, F.R.S., is here referred to.
[103] A pet name for his sister.
[104] A window to his memory is to be placed in Caius College Chapel.
[105] A favourite cousin, who died a few mouths after Mr. Romanes.
[107] His wedding-day.
[108] Dr. Paget had been very ill.
[109] Mr. Waggett.
[110] It was 'book-plate.'
[111] Contemporary, April 1892.
[112] His butler, an old and valued servant.
[113] F. J. Moulton, Esq., M.P., F.R.S.
[114] Professor W. Crookes, F.R.S.
[115] Mr. Herbert Spencer on 'Natural Selection,' Contemporary Review, April 1893.
[116] Now Bishop of Rochester.
[117] About eighteen months before, when a very temporary attack of aphasia had come on.
[118] His brother was making additions to the house at Dunskaith.
[119] He did see one more.
[120] See Life and Letters of C. Darwin, vol. iii. p. 358.
[121] Mr. G. R. Turner, F.R.C.S., one of Mr. Romanes's dearest friends; as was also his brother, Mr. E. B. Turner, F.R.C.S.
[122] Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford.
[123] Of St. Giles's Parish Church.
[124] A pet name for the two babies.
[125] By Professor Knight of St. Andrews.
[126] The Dean of Christ Church.
[127] Dante's Purgatorio, I.
[128] The Dean of Christ Church.
[129] Reprinted from the Guardian of June 6.
[130] Wisdom, iv. 13.
[131] Preface to Life and Letters of Dean Church, p. xxiv.
[INDEX]
Acton, Lord, [286]
Agassiz, [15], [31], [32]
Allen, Grant, [55]
Allman, Professor, [149], [150]
Arnold, M., [82]
Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., [142]
— Mr. Francis, [15], [148]
Bishop of Oxford (Wilberforce), [81]
Boys, Mrs. Vernon, letter to, [294]
Bramwell, Sir F., [222], [223]
British Association, [65], [71]
Browning, Robert, [142], [149]
Brunton, Dr. Lauder, [61], [148]
Brydon, Dr., [14]
Burney prize, won by G. J. Romanes, [9], [83]
Butcher, Professor, [148], [193], [266], [277]
Caird, Professor (now Master of Balliol), [40], [348]
Cats, sense of direction in, [107]
Cautley, Rev. Proby, [6], [7]
Children, poem to, [139]
Church, Dean, [156], [157], [229], [343], [356]
Churchill, Mr., [204], [209]
Clodd, E. M., [149]
Compton, Earl and Countess, [272], [273], [276], [277], [286]
Correvon, Professor, [177], [212], [213]
Crookes, Professor, [303], [304]
Croonian Lectures, [15], [92]
Curteis, Canon, [151]
Darwin, Charles, first introduction to, [12]
— first meeting with, [14]
Darwin, Charles, letters from, [32], [34], [35], [45], [47], [49], [56], [60], [62], [65], [66], [72], [74], [75], [76], [78], [85], [97], [101], [102], [105], [108], [109], [114], [115], [117], [120], [123], [126]
— letters to, [19], [20], [33], [34], [38], [42], [45], [50], [53], [55], [57], [61], [63], [68], [70], [71], [73], [77], [79], [86], [93], [98], [99], [100], [103], [104], [106], [112], [116], [118], [119], [120], [121], [125]
— quoted, [196], [200], [203], [211], [220], [221], [224], [307], [320], [339]
— death of, [130]
— memorial volume, [133]
— Mr. F., [8], [50], [51], [54], [59], [78], [73], [105], [130], [131], [132], [135], [170], [171], [186], [209], [303], [317]
Darwin and after Darwin, [177], [279]
Dawkins, Professor Boyd, [151]
Delbœuf, La Psychologie, son Présent et son Avenir, [74]
Dyer, Mr. Thiselton, [90], [198], [200], [211], [213], [239], [304], [307], [314], [315], [316]
Eimer, Dr., [45], [224], [290]
Eliot, George, [48]
Evidences of Organic Evolution, lectures on, [66]
Ewart, Professor Cossar, [14], [92], [100], [128], [150], [256], [290], [311]
Fabre, M., [111], [113], [196]
Flower, Sir W., [74], [302]
Foster, Dr. Michael, [8], [13], [31], [38], [51]
Galton, Mr. Francis, [55], [161], [162], [239], [262], [302], [317]
Germination, experiments on, [303], [324]
Gill, Mr. and Mrs., [272]
Gotch (Professor), [258]
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., [162], [231], [275], [286], [355]
Gore, Rev. C., [81], [272], [278], [303], [311], [342], [349], [351]
Gosse, Mr. E. W., [229], [277]
Gounod, [69]
Graham, Mr. H. M., M.P., [273], [277]
Gray, Professor Asa, [153], [154]
Green, Mr. J. R., [144]
Gulick, Rev. J., [216], [217], [232], [236], [255]
Häckel, [47], [49], [51], [52], [61], [66], [93]
Heliotropism, experiments on, [325]
Helmholtz, Professor, [320]
Henslow, Rev. George, letters to and from, [327]-341
Hobhouse, Sir A., [76]
— Rev. W., [277], [297]
Holland-Scott, Rev. H., [144], [185], [284]
Hooker, Sir Joseph, [20], [54], [74], [176]
Horsley, Mr. Victor, [222], [259], [265]
Huxley, Professor, [16], [55], [74], [144], [259], [278], [286], [287], [303], [316]
Hybridism, [101], [102], [103]
Instinct, article on, [129]
Joachim, Dr. Joseph, [70], [273]
Lamarck, [222], [224], [308]
Lankester, Professor, [46], [90], [277]
Latham, Dr., [9]
Lawless, Hon. E., [56], [57]
Lecky, Mr., [162], [285]
Le Conte, Professor, [238], [278]
Liddon, Rev. Dr., [143], [160], [257], [258], [259]
Lincoln, Bishop of, [348]
Linnean Society, [38], [116]
Lister, C. E., [5], [256]
Lockyer, Mr. Norman, [126], [142], [148]
Logan, Mr. C., [193]
Lux Mundi, [249], [250], [259]
McKendrick, Professor, [91]
Medusæ, work on, [15], [16], [17], [18], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [37], [47]
Meldola, Professor, [90], [161]
Mivart, Professor St. George, [100]
Moberly, Rev. Dr., [342], [343]
Moore, Rev. Aubrey, [249], [250], [251], [252], [253]
Morgan, Professor Lloyd C., [311]
Myers, Mr. F. W., [80]
Newall, Mr., [99]
Paget, Rev. H. L., [2], [232]
— Miss M. M., [139], [140], [286]
— Very Rev. Francis, [2], [143], [149], [151], [157], [159], [228], [297], [310], [320], [343], [346], [351]
— Sir James, [344], [349]
Palgrave, Professor, [229], [278]
Pangenesis, letters on, [18], [19], [21], [35], [47], [49], [107], [108], [195], [223], [225], [254]
Panmixia, [198], [212], [224], [239], [254]
Pascal, [342]
Pembroke, Master of, [346]
Perrier, M., [196], [198], [222]
Pfleiderer, Professor, [160]
Physiological selection, [162]-176, [201]-208, [209]-217, [235]
Physiological Society, [51], [65]
Pollock, Mr. W. H., [92]
— Mrs. H., letters to, [263], [288]
Poulton, Professor E. B., [192], [193], [195], [197], [220]
Psychology, work on, [188], [190]
Rede Lecture, [153]
Romanes, Rev. Dr., [1], [2]
— Mr., [1], [9], [92]
— Miss C. E., letters to, [65], [129], [142], [144], [161], [166], [178], [184], [185]
— Miss Georgina, [69]
— Mrs. G. J., letters to, [91], [262], [266], [296]-301, [346]
— Mr. James, letters to, [11], [151], [187], [240], [289], [292], [295], [312], [319]
Rosebery Lectureship, [177]
Roux, Dr., [109], [110], [125]
Ruskin, John, [98]
St. Albans, Bishop of, [156]
'Sally,' letter on, [241]
Sanderson, Professor Burdon, [13], [18], [51], [66], [69], [117], [130], [148], [192], [259], [311], [326]
Schäfer, Professor, letters to, [22], [25], [28], [37], [279], [348]
Sharpey, Professor, [13]
Shorthouse, Mr., [144]
Smith, Rev. Robert, [1]
Spencer, Herbert, [48], [93], [96], [144], [221], [239], [301], [305], [307]
Spottiswoode, Mr. William, [14], [142], [149]
Sully, Mr., [96], [277]
Tait, Lawson, [21]
Talbot, Dr., [311]
Taylor, Canon Isaac, [291], [296]
Teesdale, Mr. J. M., [99], [100], [129]
Theism, a Candid Examination of, [83], [149], [153], [154], [342]
Thompson, Sir W. (Lord Kelvin), [91]
Thoughts on Religion, [342]
Tyndall, Professor, [104], [143]
Vivisection, [61], [62], [117], [121], [122], [123], [124], [125], [126]
Waggett, Rev. P. W., [311], [348], [350]
Wallace, Mr., [55], [90], [170], [210], [211], [219], [255], [261], [337]
Wedgwood, Miss, [99], [100], [101]
Weismann, Professor, [194], [195], [196], [197], [211], [220], [223], [224], [225], [226], [235], [236], [237], [239], [240], [253], [254], [266], [288], [300], [301], [347]
Yeo, Professor Gerald, [65]
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Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspelling in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example: develop, develope; dulness; inclose; starfish, star-fish.
[Table of Contents.] '228' replaced by '248'.
[Pg 18,] Footnote [7]. 'Weissmannism' replaced by 'Weismannism'.
[Pg 50.] 'Rosshire' replaced by 'Ross-shire'.
[Pg 126.] 'You letter' replaced by 'Your letter'.
[Pg 190.] 'Fetichism' replaced by 'Fetishism'.
[Index: Huxley.] '237' replaced by '287'.