You certainly seem to be having much the best time of it as regards weather. Every week and every day here is worse than the last--the month which has just ended having been the most savage February in the memory of living Londoners. You will have seen that poor Cotter Morison has not survived it. He died last Sunday, just too soon to see his son, who had been telegraphed home from India. He had a great desire to live long enough to have had this meeting, and it seems hard that when he struggled on so long and painfully at the end, that he should just have missed it. For Mr. Morison Mr. Romanes had a great regard, and his death was a real sorrow. _Journal._--Sir F. Bramwell lectured on the 'Faults of the Decimal System,' calling it a lecture without a _point_. He was killingly amusing. Dinner at Sir H. Thompson's, met Mr. J. Froude, Hannen, and others. We met the author of 'The New Antigone' the other night at the Lillys'. He reviewed 'Mental Evolution in Man' in a R.C. paper the other day; according to him it's the Gospel of Dirt! Last Sunday we went to hear Spurgeon; of _his_ personal goodness there is no doubt. _May 14._--Stayed in Christ Church with the Pagets. G. had a most interesting talk with Aubrey Moore. [Mr. Romanes had already, at the Aristotelian Society, met Mr. Aubrey Moore.] Lunched on Sunday with the Max Müllers. He showed us a letter from Mr. Darwin most characteristic in its humility and sweetness. _May 20._--Very fine sermon from Mr. Scott-Holland on the Evidence of the Gospels. Tea at the Deanery, and G. had a little talk with the Dean. There are frequent mentions now of Mr. Scott-Holland, whom Mr. Romanes often went to hear. In 1888 appeared 'Mental Evolution in Man.' _To Miss C. E. Romanes._ Cornwall Terrace: May 18, 1888. My own book is certain to make a 'commotion,' if not among 'the angels' in heaven,[52] at least among 'the saints' upon earth. One of these same saints has been behaving outrageously in print, and everybody is full either of jubilation or indignation at what he has been writing about Darwin and Darwinism. F. Darwin asked me to do the replying, and to-day I am returning proof of an article for the 'Contemporary Review.' I am ashamed to have been so long in writing, but the truth is that, notwithstanding having put down _Finis_ to my M.S., other things occurred to me to add, which required recasting some of the chapters, and so I have been fighting against time, and am still. It will not be long now before you have the children.