256 GEORGE JOHN ROMANES i890 



Please return the enclosed, which I send as a fact 

 that may interest you. 



To P7'ofessor J. C. Ewart. 



18 CornwaU Terrace, Begent's Park, N.W. : April 27, 1890. 



As Ethel has already told you, I believe, we have 

 taken a three years' lease of a charming old house, 

 and let this one for a corresponding period. It is a 

 very old house in Oxford, having been built by 

 Cardinal Wolsey. It is immediately opposite Tom 

 Tower of Christ Church, and full of old oak — walls, 

 floors, and ceihngs of the principal rooms being 

 nothing else. 



I do wish you could come up before we begin 

 operations, to give us the benefit of your advice how 

 so splendid an opportunity in the way of decoration 

 should be utilised. We have to get out of this house, 

 with all our furniture, on or before May 20. The 

 children and servants will then go to Greanies, while my 

 wife and I will go to Oxford to begin the decorations. 



I am preparing my lectures on Darwinism for the 

 press, so that they may be ready for publication on 

 the last day of my course at Edinburgh in November. 

 I suppose I have your permission to reproduce your 

 E.S. pictures of electric organs ? Also, could you 

 send me for a day or two Haddon's book on Em- 

 bryology ? 



I have just heard that Charles Lister (whom I 

 think you met at Geanies) has died of fever in 

 Brazil, where he was zoologising. 



Yours ever sincerely, 



Geo. J. Romanes. 



