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method of treatment and of the arguments he 

 adduced, it was rather in matters of definition than 

 in matters of fact that the source of their differences 

 lay. He was somewhat disappointed that his terms 

 ' recept ' and ' receptual ' for mental products inter- 

 mediate between the ' percept ' and the ' concept ' 

 were not more generally accepted by psychologists, 

 since, in his matured opinion, they and the conception 

 they represent were eminently helpful in bridging 

 the debatable space between the intellectual powers 

 of man and the faculties of the lower animals. 



It was Mr. Romanes' intention to continue the 

 mental evolution series and to deal, in further instal- 

 ments of his work, with the intellectual emotions, 

 volition, morals, and religion. This intention, how- 

 ever, he did not live to fulfil. His further develop- 

 ment of mental evolution in the light of his later 

 •coiiclusions in the region of philosophical and religious 

 thought would have been profoundly interesting. 

 But one's regret that this part of his life work 

 remained incomplete is tempered by the recollection 

 that what he did complete was so worthily done. 

 Por, in the words of Mr. Lloyd Morgan, which were 

 quoted with approval by Dr. Burdon Sanderson in 

 his Eoyal Society obituary notice : ' by his patient 

 collection of data ; by his careful discussion of these 

 data in the light of principles clearly and definitely 

 formulated ; by his wide and forcible advocacy of his 

 views ; and, above all, by his own observations and 

 experiments, Mr. Eomanes left a mark in this field of 

 investigation and interpretation which is not likely 

 io be effaced.' 



In 1889 Mr. Romanes attended the British Asso- 

 ciation which met that year at Newcastle. Here, he 

 and Professor Poulton had a long discussion on the 

 * Inheritance of Acquired Characters ' ; he spoke so 

 much, and was so much en evidence, at this Association 



