150 GBOEGE JOHN EOMANES I88I- 



This year Mr. Eomanes and Professor Ewart set 

 up a small laboratory on the Geanies coast, and the 

 Journal notes : 



Professor Ewart could not get the farmhouse he 

 hoped, and this was unfortunate, as he had written 

 to the British Association and invited one or two 

 foreigners to come and work and live in this farm- 

 house. In vain were the foreigners warned not to 

 come, for one evening in walked a young Dane, who 

 preceded a postcard he had sent announcing his 

 arrival. Very nice, and extremely embarrassed at 

 finding himself in a country house where people 

 dressed for dinner. 



However, he got accommodation in the neigh- 

 bourhood and worked at Ascidians, but the expe- 

 riment of inviting stray foreign scientists was 

 abandoned. 



Sept. — The Allmans, Turners, and Mr. Lockyer 

 have been here, and we have been getting up some 

 private theatricals. 



Jan. 1884. — Lecture at the Eoyal Institution on 

 ' the Darwinian Theory of Instinct.' 



To Miss C. E. Bomanes. 



January 5, 1884. 



I am preparing a beautiful surprise for Ethel 

 after she comes down again. The library is to have 

 its end wall papered and panelled, the conservatory 

 is to be painted green, and filled with stands of 

 flowers, and the little room is to have the -^nndow 

 filled with stained glass, the walls, ceiling, and doors,. 



