328 GEOEGE JOHN ROMANES 1893 



leads to success in the struggle for existence not 

 perceiving that the appearance of opposition is due 

 to natural selection having been transferred from the 

 individual to the community. 



With the permitted exception of my wife, no one 

 else has seen the proof. 



Yours very sincerely, 



G. J. KOMANES. 



Journal : May. Sir A. Clark is fairly encouraging. 

 Dinner at Mrs. Pollock's ; met the E. Palgraves and 

 W. Flowers, who have blossomed out into K.C.B.'s 

 since we left. 



%0th. The Huxleys' visit has been most delight- 

 ful. He was most genial and 'mellow,' and his lecture 

 has, of course, aroused great interest. Various people 

 to meet them. Mr. Gore and Professor Froude one 

 day to lunch. Somewhat heterogeneous elements. 

 When the former had gone, Mr. Huxley suddenly 

 awakened to the fact that it was the Principal of the 

 Pusey House whom he had met. 



Count and Countess Balzani have been here, and 

 we had an ' historical ' dinner for them. 



This was the last bit of the old pleasant life which 

 Mr. Komanes had so much enjoyed. He was busy 

 arranging experiments on heliotropism and on the 

 power of germination in dry seeds after precautions 

 had been taken to prevent any ordinary processes 

 of respiration, which were worked up into a Eoyal 

 Society paper. He writes : 



