1891 THE KOMANES LECTURE 291 



To Mrs. Romanes. 



Athenaeum Club : November 30, 1891. 



I have had a jolly time. Driving straight here, 

 I met Huxley, Foster, Lockyer, and at the Koyal 

 Society everybody of scientific persuasion. 



December 23. 



The fog is so frightful it seems probable I shall 

 not get to Cambridge, so I dined with the Pollocks 

 and slept at H. Paget's. It is jolly about Mr. 

 Gladstone. 1 



It was during this autumn that Mr. Eomanes re- 

 solved to found a lectureship at Oxford on the lines of 

 the Eede Lectures at Cambridge, and after consulting 

 various friends, chiefly the present Master of Pem- 

 broke, 2 the idea was submitted to the University and 

 the offer was accepted. The preface, which is to be 

 prefixed to the first volume of Lectures, gives the 

 Founder's ideas. 



Founder's Preface. 



The primary object of this Lectureship is to 

 secure a perpetual series of discourses in the University 

 of Oxford under the conditions laid down in the fore- 

 going Statute. But seeing that these conditions are 

 necessarily of a general character, I add the following 

 suggestions with regard to certain matters of detail, 

 in order that, as far as from time to time may seem 

 expedient, the proceedings may be conducted in 

 accordance with my wishes. 



1 Mr. Gladstone's consent to be the first Romanes lecturer is here 

 referred to. ' The Rev. Bartholomew Price, D.D., F.B.S. 



