From this letter it will, I hope, be apparent that so far as 'counting' by merely sensuous computation is concerned, the savage cannot be said to show much advance upon the brute. 'Once, while I watched a Damara floundering hopelessly in a calculation on one side of me, I observed Dinah, my spaniel, equally embarrassed on the other. She was overlooking half a dozen of her new-born puppies, which had been removed two or three times from her, and her anxiety was expressive as she tried to find out if they were all present, or if any were still missing. She kept puzzling and running her eyes over them, backwards and forwards, but could not satisfy herself. She evidently had a vague notion of counting, but the figure was too large for her brain. Taking the two as they stood, dog and Damara, the comparison reflected no great honour on the man.' (Galton, _loc. cit._) But the case, of course, is quite otherwise when, in virtue of the greatly superior development of the sign-making faculty in man, the savage is enabled to employ the intellectual artifice of separate notation, whereby he attains the conception of number in the abstract, and so lays the foundation of mathematical science. Now, so far as I am aware, there is no trustworthy evidence of any race of savages who are without any idea of separate notation. Whether the system of notation be digital only, or likewise verbal, is, psychologically speaking, of comparatively little moment. For it is historically certain that notation begins by using the fingers, and how far any particular tribe may have advanced in the direction of naming their numbers is a question which ought never to be confused with that as to whether the tribe can 'count' _i.e._ notate. GEORGE J. ROMANES. Geanies, Ross-shire. FOOTNOTES: [37] _Life and Letters of Charles Darwin_, by Francis Darwin, vol. i. p. iii. [38] Miss M. M. Paget. [39] The friend referred to on p. 178. [40] It should be explained that the writer of this memoir is responsible for the Journal, but as it was kept for the benefit of both husband and wife a few extracts are given. [41] The answer is the word _six_. [42] A moor taken in addition to the low ground shooting of Geanies. [43] Mr. F. Balfour was killed on the Aiguille Blanche de Peuteret, July 1882. [44] Mr. Browning told the same story of the Carlyles at this party which Mrs. Ritchie narrates in _Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning_, pp. 198, 199. [45] The _nom de plume_ adopted in writing _Candid Examination of Theism_. [46] See sonnets, _The Bible of Amiens_, and _Christ Church, Oxford_. [47] See _Nature_, January 25, 1883. [48] Mr. Romanes remarked _à propos_ of Pfleiderer's lecture that St. Paul seemed to be a very hard nut for the lecturer to crack. [49] Dr. King. [50] Through the kindness of Lord Rosebery. [51] One of Mr. Romanes' numerous pet names.