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work has brought me. I confess, however, that but 

 for personal reasons I should have postponed Pan- 

 genesis and worked the Medusae right through in one 

 year. There is a glitter about immediate results 

 which is very alluring. 



From C. Darwin to Gr. J. Romanes. 



I will send the books off by railway on Monday or 

 Tuesday. You may keep that on Medusaa until I ask 

 for it, which will probably be never. That on Siphono- 

 phora I should like to have back at some future time. 



So far from thinking that you have neglected 

 Pangenesis, I have been astonished and pleased that 

 your splendid work on the jelly-fishes did not make 

 you throw every other subject to the dogs. Even if 

 your experiments turn out a failure, I believe that 

 there will be some compensation in the skill you will 

 have acquired. 



P.S. I have been having more correspondence 

 with Galton about Pangenesis, and my confusion is 

 more confounded with respect to the points in which 

 he differs from me. 



About this time Mr. Romanes made the acquaint- 

 ance of Mr. Herbert Spencer and also that of Mr. 

 G. H. Lewes, and of the wonderful woman known to 

 the outer world as George Eliot, and to a small circle 

 of friends as Mrs. Lewes. 



Mr. Komanes was one of the favoured few who were 

 allowed to join the charmed circle at the Priory on 

 Sunday afternoons. He enjoyed the few talks he had 

 with George Eliot, and, amongst other reminiscences, 



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