104 GEORGE JOHN ROMANES isso- 



On my way South I stayed for a couple of days 

 at Newcastle, to give two lectures on Mental Evolu- 

 tion, and hence my absence when you called. I 

 stayed with Mr. Newall, who has the monster tele- 

 scope, and ' as good luck would have it, Providence 

 was on my side,' in the matter of giving us a clear 

 sky for observing, rather a rare thing at Newcastle. 



You will be glad to hear that our season's work 

 at the ' Zoological station ' has been very successful. 

 A really interesting research has been conducted by 

 Ewart and myself jointly on the locomotor system of 

 Echinoderms, he taking the morphological and I the 

 physiological part. When next I see you I shall tell 

 you the principal points, but to do so in a letter 

 would be tedious. 



I think it is probable that Mivart and I shall 

 have a magazine battle some day on Mental Evolu- 

 tion, as I think it is better to draw him in this way 

 before finally discussing the whole subject in my 

 book. 



18 Cornwall Terrace : November 13, 1880. 



I am grieved to hear from Mr. Teesdale that his 

 fears were only too well founded. Although I had 

 not myself the privilege of Miss Wedgwood's ac- 

 quaintance, I know, from what I have been told by 

 those who had, how greatly your household must feel 

 her loss. 



I should not, however, have written only to trouble 

 you with expressions of sympathy. I desire to ask 

 you one or two questions with reference to an article 

 on Hybridism which I have written for the ' Ency- 

 clopaedia Britannica,' and the corrected proof of which 



