io MEMORIES OF MY LIFE 



Prof. W. B. Carpenter (1813- 1885) the physiologist, 

 J. Gwyn Jeffreys (1 809-1 885), conchologist, etc., and 

 Sir Lewis Pelly, K.C.B. (1825-1892), Indian soldier 

 and diplomatist. She wrote a book on Port Royal, 

 and left a valuable library of Port Royalist literature 

 to Sion College, which Mrs. Romanes told me was 

 of great service to her in writing her recent history 

 of that establishment. For more, see Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. 



I wish I could have learnt more details than I 

 possess of another brother of my father, Theodore 

 Gal ton (1784-18 10), who left England for the grand 

 tour, picked up many curios in Spain and Greece, 

 and, returning in health from the East, was placed in 

 quarantine at Malta. The quarantine establishment 

 was attacked by the plague ; he caught it and it killed 

 him. He had the highest reputation in the family 

 for his natural gifts, mental and bodily. There is 

 a touching notice of him in the Annual Register. 



My mother was A. Violetta Darwin (1 783-1 874). 

 I have heard from older friends, long since passed 

 away, many charming stories of her as a young 

 bride. She, as I understand, had nothing of the 

 Quaker temperament, but was a joyous and uncon- 

 ventional girl. In her later life she formed the 

 centre of our family during thirty years of widowhood, 

 after my father's comparatively early death at the 

 age of sixty. She was very methodical in her 

 papers and accounts, and a most affectionate mother 

 to myself. One curious faculty of hers deserves 

 record. It was the ease with which she took in 

 mentally, and afterwards reproduced in rough archi- 

 tectural drawing, the arrangement of any house she 



