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When I had finished, all the great guns had their 

 say, Professor Hackel leading off with a tremendous 

 eulogium on the work, laying special stress on the 

 great difficulty of conducting an inquiry of the kind, 

 and complimenting me highly on the success obtained. 

 Sanderson then made a long speech, and then 

 Stirling and Balfour, &c. 



The latter stated it as his opinion that my 

 investigation is the most important that has as yet 

 been conducted in any department of invertebrate 

 physiology. The discussion was then cut short by the 

 president to leave time for the other papers, my own 

 exposition having taken so long. I replied briefly. 



Shortly after this, Mr. Romanes delivered a lecture 

 on the Evidences of Organic Evolution, which he re- 

 printed in the ' Fortnightly,' and afterwards worked up 

 into a little book called ' The Scientific Evidences 

 of Organic Evolution.' About this lecture Mr. Darwin 

 wrote : 



Down. 



My dear Romanes, I have just finished your 

 lecture. It is an admirable scientific argument and 

 most powerful. I wish that it could be sown broad- 

 cast throughout the land. Your courage is marvellous, 

 and I wonder that you were not stoned on the spot. 

 And in Scotland ! Do please tell me how it was 

 received in the Lecture Hall. About man being 

 made like a monkey (p. 37) is quite new to me ; and 

 the argument in an earlier place on the law of 

 parsimony admirably put. Yes, p. 21 is new to me. 

 All strikes me as very clear, and considering small 



