262 GBOEGE JOHN EOMANES isoo 



Oxford or Cambridge does not offer one to F. Galton. 

 Could you start a movement in that direction ? . . . 



I am getting so convinced about physiological 

 selection, that I do not care what is said at random, 

 or without understanding the theory. 



Later in the autumn he writes : 



To Mrs. Bomanes. 



I hope to find letters from Ober Ammergau when 

 I return to Geanies, with a dozen bottles of sulphur 

 water and several pounds of heather honey. Went 

 yesterday to see a waterfall, which was wonderfully 

 beautiful ; on the way back met a pony with half a 

 trap, and afterwards came on the other half with its 



previous occupants. Lord and Lady , cut about 



the face, but not seriously hurt. There is an awful 

 row going on here in the Free Kirk, which bids fair to 

 end in bloodshed locally, if not disruption generally. 



I am so glad you do not repent going, and am 

 longing to hear what you think of the play. I took 

 Ethel and Ernest partridge-shooting, and had tea out- 

 side. The new hound, ' Dart,' has arrived. He is 

 beautiful, and as gentle as a lamb with the children. 

 This threw us off our guard, and at tea there was a 

 horrible scene, ending in the murder of Sharpe.' 

 The latter barked at him, and five minutes afterwards 

 was a mangled misery. Have returned Dart with a 

 civil note, for the sake of Norah and Jack,^ the latter 

 having only been saved by heroic measures on the 

 part of Mytsie. 



' A beautiful terrier. ^ Two more dogs. 



