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had already arranged that if he died before completing 

 ' Darwin, and after Darwin,' Professor Lloyd Morgan 

 should finish it and publish it, and any other scientific 

 papers, an arrangement to which Mr. Lloyd Morgan 

 most kindly consented. To Mr. Gore 1 were be- 

 queathed the fragmentary notes now published under 

 the title ' Thoughts on Religion.' 



On May 3 came the third Romanes Lecture. It 

 was given by Professor Weismann, and was a worthy 

 successor to the two which had preceded it. 



Mr. Romanes was glad to meet Professor 

 Weismann, and enjoyed the pleasant talk he and 

 his distinguished opponent had in his house after 

 the lecture. 



On the seventh of May he went to London to 

 consult doctors, and for the last time he stayed with 

 his two dear friends, Sir James and Lady Paget. 



He saw one or two people and was, as one friend 

 said, 'just his dear merry old self, chaffing and being 

 chaffed.' 



He enjoyed music as much as ever, and on the 

 nineteenth of May he went to a concert given by the 

 Ladies' Orchestral Society. 



He was often at the Museum, and he wrote fre- 

 quently of the experiments he was devising, all bear- 

 ing on Professor Weismann's theory; in these he was 

 assisted by Dr. Leonard Hill. 



He wrote several times to Professor Schafer, and 

 on May 19, four days before his death, in the midst of 

 a long letter too technical to be given, he says, ' All I 

 can do now for science is to pay.' 



He still took much interest in Oxford life, and one 

 of the last things he did was to vote against the 



1 The writer of this book was one morning taking down some of the 

 1 Thoughts ' from his dictation. He said : ' If I die before T can work 

 these notes into a book, give them to Gore, he will understand.' 



