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Mr. Eomanes held for five years, and he enjoyed the 

 fortnight's residence in Edinburgh it involved, and 

 the meetings with Edinburgh people. He gave to his 

 class a course on the History of Biology, and then 

 proceeded to take them through a course of lectures 

 on the Evidences of Organic Evolution, on the theo- 

 ries of Lamarck, of Mr. Darwin himself, and on post- 

 Darwinian theories. These lectures he worked up 

 into the three years' course he gave as Eulleriari Pro- 

 fessor at the Eoyal Institution, with many additions 

 and alterations. The substance of them now appears 

 in l Darwin and after Darwin,' parts i. and ii. A third 

 volume was to have been devoted to Physiological 

 Selection, and enough was prepared in the form of 

 notes to justify publication. 



At the end of 1886 there fell on the Komanes 

 family a bitter sorrow. Of the Geanies ' brother- 

 hood,' the brightest and merriest, a remarkably hand- 

 some, joyous girl, absolutely unselfish and sweet, 

 most dearly loved and loving, was the first to die. 

 Her death was a terrible sorrow not only to her own 

 immediate circle of relations, but to the friends to 

 whom she had been as a very dear sister. On Mr. 

 Romanes this death, so sudden and so startling, 

 made a deep and lasting impression. Erom this 

 time more and more he turned in the direction of 

 faith, and his feelings found an outlet in poetry more 

 frequently and more effectually than before. 



To Miss C. E. Eomanes. 



Edinburgh : Christmas Day, 1886. 



My dearest Charlotte,-^ The time has come when 

 it is some relief to write, but how shall I begin to tell 



