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about the lizards in Capri, but forget details. He 

 often alludes to it in his book translated by Cunning- 

 ham. What are his main results ? 



G. J. E. 



The Cambridge Fellowship was a great pleasure 

 to Mr. Eomanes. In the last months of his life he 

 longed eagerly to visit his first University and his 

 own college, and planned visits to Cambridge which, 

 alas, were never paid. 



Canon Isaac Taylor was in the same hotel at 

 Madeira, and this considerably relievedthe weariness of 

 exile. Mr. Eomanes was still full of funand merriment; 

 the headaches diminished ; he played chess intermin- 

 ably, and even took part in a little play given one 

 afternoon by a few people who formed themselves 

 into an ' Oxford Brotherhood,' most of the members 

 having some connection with the University of 

 Oxford. 



The members of the brotherhood were supposed 

 to deliver lectures in turn, but the burden chiefly 

 fell on Mr. Eomanes. The lecturing, which in this 

 particular case was simply talking, was never any 

 "trouble to him, and he used to deliver little im- 

 promptu discourses which apparently pleased his 

 friendly audience. Canon Taylor kindly gave a dis- 

 course on the Aryans, and displeased one of his 

 audience, a young lady, by remarking at the outset, 

 ^ My specimens (alluding to Eomanes' scientific lec- 

 tures) are before me, and I suppose we are all Aryans.' 

 The young lady had imagined she was about to hear 

 a lecture on Church history, and was not pleased at 

 being dubbed an Arian. 



Mr. Eomanes' letters showed nearly always great 

 brightness and increased feelings of health, although 

 now and then he had ' bad days.' 



