342 GEOEGE JOHN ROMANES 1893 



Looking all the facts in the face, I do not expect 

 ever to see another birthday, 1 and therefore, like Job, 

 am disposed to curse my first one. For I know that 

 all my best work was to have been published in the 

 next ten or fifteen years ; and it is wretched to think 

 of how much labour in the past will thus" be wasted. 



However, I do not write to constitute you my 

 confessor, but to thank you for your letter, and 

 also to say that I am sending you a copy of my 

 1 Examination of Weismannism,' just published by 

 Longmans. 



With our united kind regards to Mrs. Dyer and 

 yourself, I remain, yours very sincerely, 



GEO. J. EOMANES. 



To Professor Huxley. 



94 St. Aldate's, Oxford : September 26, 1893. 



My dear Mr. Huxley, Although grieved to hear 

 that Mrs. Huxley has been so poorly, we sincerely 

 hope that your project of i gathering up the threads ' 

 of the Weismann question betokens a marked im- 

 provement in your own health, since the kind letter 

 was written which she sent us on your going abroad 

 in July. 



I am sorry to say that your corresponding infer- 

 ence with regard to myself is very wide of the truth. 

 My < Examination of Weismannism ' was written 

 before my last attack which, in fact, occurred on 

 the very day when the concluding proofs had been 

 returned to the Clarendon Press. And this attack has 

 been of far too serious a nature to admit of my doing 



1 He did see one more. 



