M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. WRITTEN AND EDITED BY HIS WIFE SECOND EDITION LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, AND BOMBAY 1896 All rights reserved LIBERIS NOSTRIS RECORDATIO PATRIS DESIDERATISSIMI MEMORIA JUSTI CUM LAUDIBUS All rights reserved LIBERIS NOSTRIS RECORDATIO PATRIS DESIDERATISSIMI MEMORIA JUSTI CUM LAUDIBUS...

In sending out this Second Edition of my husband's Life, I cannot but acknowledge the extreme kindness with which it has been received. But I think it is also due to his memory to say a word in view of various statements that have been made in America and elsewhere, to the effect that his mental vigour and powers were impaired before his death. These statements are absolutely untrue. I can best refute them by calling attention to the obituary notice written by Professor Burdon Sanderson for the

In writing my husband's life I have tried, so far as it was possible, to let him, especially in matters scientific, speak for himself. For the purpose of his biographer it is unfortunate that my husband lived in almost daily intercourse for parts of many years with more than one of his most intimate friends. Hence there are no letters to several people with whom he was in the habit of discussing scientific, philosophic, and theological questions. The letters relating to his work will, I hope, in

George John Romanes was born at Kingston, Canada, on May 20, 1848, the third son of the Rev. George Romanes, D.D., then Professor of Greek in the University of that place. The Professor had come out to Canada some years previously, and, after a short experience of work in country parishes, had settled down to teach Greek to the alumni of the little University. Dr. Romanes was descended from an old Scottish family settled since 1586 in Berwickshire: he had been educated at the High School and Uni

Most men feel that their University life is one of the most marked phases of their career. Even to those who come up from a public school, with all the prestige and with all the friendships, the sense of fellowship, the hundred and one influences, the customs of a great school 'lying thick' upon them, realise more and more, as time goes on, how great a part Oxford or Cambridge plays in their lives; how it is in their University life they make their intellectual choice, and receive the bias which