viii GEORGE JOHN EOMANES 



express my thanks to Mr. Francis Darwin for 

 generously allowing me to print portions of the 

 correspondence which for seven or eight years was 

 one of the chief pleasures and privileges of my 

 husband's life. I must also thank my brother and 

 sister-in-law, the Dean of Christ Church, Professor 

 Poulton, Professor Schafer, Professor Le Conte, 

 Mr. Thiselton-Dyer, and others for like permission. 



And I must express my most sincere gratitude 

 to the Eev. P. N. Waggett, to Professor C. Lloyd 

 Morgan, and to my cousin Mrs. St. Greorge Eeid 

 (late of Newnham College, Cambridge), for their 

 constant help and advice. 



To Mrs. Eeid I owe more than I can well express. 

 Her scientific knowledge and ability have been simply 

 invaluable, and have been used with ever-ready and 

 ungrudging generosity and kindness. 



There are other aspects of my husband's hfe 

 which are interesting, but again I think he has told 

 his own story, and it is needless for me here to speak 

 of what, to some extent, he has laid bare — of mental 

 perplexity and of steadfast endurance and loyalty to 

 Truth. It may be that others, wandering in the 

 twilight of this ' dimly lighted world,' may be stimu- 

 lated and encouraged and helped to go on in patience 

 until on them also dawns that Light. If this be so 

 it will not be altogether in vain that he bore long 

 years of very real and very heavy sorrow. 



E. E. 



Oxford: 1895. 



