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have to pay for his keep, and never have a chance of 

 a single bit of use for him all that time. Yet, strange 

 to say, I think I have made a good bargain. 



Nov., Edinburgh. — Dined at Dalmeny. We met 

 Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, and also Lieutenant Grreely, 

 of Arctic fame. 



Nov., London. — Dinner with the F. Galtons, and 

 met the Leckys and other nice people. Mr. Gralton 

 says the study of statistics fascinates him just as 

 skating on thin ice does some people— it's so perilous. 



Eeturning for a little while to the scientific work 

 of these years, one may say that they were chiefly 

 devoted to the more philosophical side of his work as 

 a naturalist. 



' Animal Intelligence,' ' Mental Evolution in 

 Animals,' appeared . respectively in 1881 and 1883, 

 and are works designed to prove that the law of 

 evolution is universal, and applies to the mind of man 

 as well as to his bodily organisation. 



Mr. Eomanes read widely and observed much, and 

 no one less deserved the charge of writing without 

 observing, or of being a ' paper philosopher.' Both 

 these books abound in stories of animals, and are full 

 of interest for anyone caring at all for ' beasts,' quite 

 apart from the special object of the books. 



Lecturing and reviewing were, so to speak, pas- 

 times to him, and gave him little trouble. One 

 lecture given at the Eoyal Institution on ' The Mental 

 Differences between Men and Women ' drew upon the 

 head of the unlucky lecturer a great storm of indig- 

 nation — why, the writer of this memoir has never been 

 able to discover. 



In May 1886, Mr. Eomanes read a paper before 

 the Linnean Society on ' Physiological Selection, an 

 additional suggestion on the origin of species.' This 



