98 GEOEGB JOHN EOMANES I88O- 



nearhj half a century, when I killed some on my 

 father-in-law's land in Staffordshire. 



I hope that you are well and strong and do not 

 give up all your time to shooting. Pray tell Mrs. 

 Romanes, if you turn idle, I shall say it is her fault, 

 and being an old man, shall scold her. But you 

 have done too splendid work to turn idle, so I need 

 not fear, and shall never have audaciously to scold 

 Mrs. Eomanes. But I am writing great rubbish. 

 You refer to some Zoological station on your coast, 

 and I now remember seeing something about it, and 

 that more money was wanted for apparatus, there- 

 fore I send a cheque of 51. 5s. just to show my 

 goodwill. 



Yours very sincerely, 



Ch. Dahwin. 



We went to the Lakes for three weeks to Conis- 

 ton, and the scenery gave me more pleasure than I 

 thought my soul, or whatever remains of it, was 

 capable of feeling. We saw Euskin several times, 

 and he was uncommonly pleasant. 



To G. Darwin, Esq. 



18 Cornwall Terrace : November 18, 1880. 



Very many thanks for your kind assistance and 

 expressions of approval. It was stupid of me to for- 

 get your article in ' Nature ' about the geese. I now 

 quite well remember reading it when it came out. 



Focke's book is just the very thing I wanted, as 

 it supplies such a complete history of the subject. If 

 I do not hear from you again, I shall keep it for a 



