1892 ILLNESS 301 



To Mrs. Romanes. 



I have been thinking of you a great deal, and, 

 with a somewhat literal application of a certain ex- 

 pletive addressed by a fast man to his eyes, am 

 driven to address you through my goggles. 



Nettleship has appointed to-morrow morning to 

 see me, so I shall not be able to get home sooner than 

 six o'clock train. Don't trouble to meet me, as I must 

 take a cab for the rabbits and rats. The latter are 

 now at the Eoyal Society, where ample space has 

 been provided for their exhibition. The Zoological 

 paper 1 went off very well, and Flower made a very 

 good remark on it, the substance of which I will tell 

 you when we meet, it had not previously occurred 

 to me. Your letter to the Pollocks never reached 

 them, so they had given me up. They were as 

 enthusiastically kind as usual, and very sympathetic 

 about my eyes. 



He returned to Oxford, and was persuaded to rest, 

 and not to go to London again to pay a promised 

 visit to Professor Palgrave. 



To Miss C. E. Romanes. 



94 St. Aldate's, Oxford : June 18, 1892. 



My dearest Charlotte, — Your little differences of 

 opinion with regard to the rats are very amusing to 

 me, and I quite see how the matter stands. 



1 On the work alluded to in a letter to Professor Schafer. 



