George John Romanes 



Prof. Romanes, who died suddenly at Oxford on May 23, was 

 born in Kingston, Canada, on May 20, 1848. He spent his boyhood 

 in England, France, Germany and Italy, receiving his early educa- 

 tion from tutors and in private schools. In 1867 he entered Gon- 

 ville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduated in natural science] 

 in 1S70, and was Burney Prize Essayist in 1873 and Croonian Lec- 

 turer to the Royal Society in 1875. He was made a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society in 1879, and in 1881 received the honorary degree 

 of LL.D. from the University of Aberdeen. He was made Fullerian 

 Professor of Physiology in the Royal Institution of London in 

 1889, and was also Rosebery Lecturer on Natural History in the 

 University of Edinburgh. While at Cambridge he formed an inti- 

 mate acquaintance with Charles Darwin, and afterward continued 

 to be an ardent member of the Darwinian School, which he rein- 

 forced effectively in his lectures and works, the long list of which 

 includes " Christian Prayer and General Laws : with Appendix on 

 the Physical Efficacy of Prayer " (1873) ; "A Candid Examination 

 of Theism" (1878); "Observations on the Locomotor System of 

 Medusa' " (1 878-1 880) ; "Animal Intelligence " (1881) ;" Charles 

 Darwin : his Character and Life " ; " The Scientific Evidences of 

 Organic Evolution" (1882); "Mental Evolution in Animals" 

 (i 883) ; " Jelly-Fish, Star Fish and Sea-Urchins : Nervous Systems " 

 (1885); " .Mental Evolution in Man "(1888); "Darwin and after 

 Darwin" (1892); and "Examination of Weismannism " (1893). 

 Besides these books, he contributed numerous papers, published in 

 the periodicals, to the progress of science and philosophy. 



