92 GEORGE JOHN ROMANES 1879- 



CHAPTEE II 



LONDON, 1879-1890 



ME. EOMANES married, on February 11, 1879, Ethel, 

 only daughter of Andrew Duncan, Esq., of Liverpool, 

 whom he had met at the house of her cousin and 

 guardian, Sir James Malcolm, of Balbedie and Grange, 

 Fifeshire. In the same year he was elected a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society. 



From 1879 to 1890 Mr. Romanes resided in 18 

 Cornwall Terrace, which his mother gave up to him, 

 and these eleven years were perhaps the brightest and 

 most fruitful of his life. 



It is difficult to give any just idea of the extreme 

 happiness and pleasantness of the home life and of 

 outward circumstances ; happiness which only seemed 

 to increase as years went on. He grew more boyish, 

 more playful, and seemed to have an endless capacity 

 for enjoyment, for friendship, for happiness of the 

 best and purest kind. 



He greatly enjoyed society, and had full oppor- 

 tunities for seeing the kind he liked best, the cream 

 of the intellectual world of London, and perhaps one 

 may be allowed to say that no one was ever more 

 unspoilt by success, by popularity. He seemed to 

 grow more simple, more single-hearted each year. 



