The Life and Letters of George John Romanes, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.Romanes, George John
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The Life and Letters of George John Romanes, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.
Romanes, George John
Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Romanes, George John, 1848-1894
[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.
[106] See p. 289, above.
[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
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