78 GBOEGB JOHN EOMANES 1878 



I had thought of keeping a monkey and teaching 

 its young ideas how to shoot, and wrote to Frank 

 Buckland for his advice as to the best kind to get, 

 but he has never answered my letter. The case 

 about the lens is a capital one. 



I have such a host of letters to answer, which 

 have accumulated during my absence, that I must 

 make this a short one. Your ' congratulations ' are 

 of more value to me than any of the others, and I 

 thank you for them much. 



Ever your devoted disciple, 



Geo. J. KoMANES. 



P.S. — Science is not a world where a man need 

 trouble himself about getting more credit than is due. 



From G. Darwin. 



Down : Sept. 2, 1878. 



My dear Eomanes, — Many thanks for your letter. 

 I am delighted to hear that you mean to work the 

 comparative psychology well. I thought your letter 

 to the ' Times ' very good indeed. Bartlett, at the 

 Zoological Gardens, I feel sure, would advise you 

 infinitely better about hardiness, intellect, price, &c., 

 of monkeys than F. Buckland, but with him it 

 must be viva voce. 



Frank says you ought to keep an idiot, a deaf 

 mute, a monkey, and a baby in your house ! 



Ever yours sincerely, 



Ch. Daewin. 



