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History. Thougli a pMlosophic naturalist in tlie wide sense of 

 the term, his favourite study was entomology, the Coleoptera 

 being the group to which he gave especial attention. Upon 

 these forms he published a large number of papers, his memoir 

 on the ' Longicornia Malayana,' describing the species collected 

 by Wallace, being one of the most important. He was also the 

 author of a well-known work on ' Zoological Classification,' and 

 of a number of brochures and small books bearing on Zoology and 

 the Darwinian theory. He had travelled much, and had amassed 

 a large collection of Coleoptera, which is now preserved in the 

 British Museum and is said to include above 2500 type specimens. 



He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society, and was 

 President in 1864-65. He was also a Member of the Entomo- 

 logical Societies of Erance, Belgium, Stettin, and of other 

 Eoreign Societies. He served for many years on the Council 

 of the Eay Society, and on the Scientific Committee of the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society. 



He was elected a Eellow of this Society in 1852. He died 

 somewhat suddenly at Brighton on June 20th, 1893. 



•Geoege John Romanes, the son of the Eev. Prof. Eomanes, 

 was born in Kingston, Canada, on May 20th, 1848. In 1867 he 

 entered Gonville and Cains College, Cambridge, took honours in 

 the Natural Science Tripos in 1870, and was Burney Prize 

 Essayist in 1873. 



Among his first important work we find a series of papers on 

 the primitive nervous systems of the Medusae and Echino- 

 dermata, published in the ' Philosophical Transactions.' It 

 was, however, to Psychology in its broadest aspect, and the 

 application thereto of the doctrine of Evolution, that Eomanes 

 devoted his vigorous and accurately trained intellect. His 

 powers of careful observation, his methods of accurate experi- 

 mentation on the side of physiological research, and his profound 

 knowledge of general philosophical writings, singularly fitted him 

 as a critic and an expositor. 



He was an industrious and prolific writer, and in addition to 

 a large number of papers, essays, and controversial articles 

 published in various magazines, reviews, and journals of learned 

 societies, he was also the author of the following well-known 

 books : — ' Animal Intelligence,' ' Mental Evolution in Animals,' 

 ' Mental Evolution in Man,' ' Jelly-fish, Star-fish, and Sea- 

 urchins,' ' Darwin and after Darwin,' ' An Examination of 

 "Weismannism." 



He was elected a Eellow of the Eoyal Society in 1879, and 

 was twice appointed Croonian Lecturer. He was also a Eellow 

 of the Zoological Society. He was Eullerian Professor of 

 Physiology in the Eoyal Institution, Eede Lecturer in the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, and Eosebery Lecturer in the University of 

 Edinburgh. He was an honorary LL.D. of the University of Aber- 

 deen and a member of the Council of University College, London. 



