The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 84
Page 7
... Darwin said to him : Above all , Romanes , cultivate the habit of meditation , ' and Mr. Romanes always quoted this as a most valuable bit of advice . His intellectual development was rapid in these Cambridge years , and it is not ...
... Darwin said to him : Above all , Romanes , cultivate the habit of meditation , ' and Mr. Romanes always quoted this as a most valuable bit of advice . His intellectual development was rapid in these Cambridge years , and it is not ...
Page 8
... Darwin's name appears . Mr. Romanes had gone but a little distance along the road on which he was destined to travel very far . He had up to this time read none of Mr. Darwin's books , and to a question on Natural Selection which ...
... Darwin's name appears . Mr. Romanes had gone but a little distance along the road on which he was destined to travel very far . He had up to this time read none of Mr. Darwin's books , and to a question on Natural Selection which ...
Page 9
... Darwin's books , and it is impossible to over- rate the extraordinary effect they had on the young man's mind . Something of the feeling which Keats describes in the sonnet On Looking into Chapman's Homer ' seems to have been his ...
... Darwin's books , and it is impossible to over- rate the extraordinary effect they had on the young man's mind . Something of the feeling which Keats describes in the sonnet On Looking into Chapman's Homer ' seems to have been his ...
Page 13
... Darwin's attention , and caused him to send a friendly little note to the youthful writer . Probably Mr. Darwin had little idea of the effect his letter produced on its recipient , who was then recovering from his long illness . That Darwin ...
... Darwin's attention , and caused him to send a friendly little note to the youthful writer . Probably Mr. Darwin had little idea of the effect his letter produced on its recipient , who was then recovering from his long illness . That Darwin ...
Page 14
... Darwin , Dr. Sanderson was the scientific friend George Romanes most valued and loved , although it is impossible to ... Darwin's notice , and somewhere about 1874 he invited Mr. Romanes to call on him . From that time began an unbroken ...
... Darwin , Dr. Sanderson was the scientific friend George Romanes most valued and loved , although it is impossible to ... Darwin's notice , and somewhere about 1874 he invited Mr. Romanes to call on him . From that time began an unbroken ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
18 Cornwall Terrace able Aldate's Animal Intelligence animals answer asked Athenæum Club Aubrey Moore believe Cambridge causes character Charles Darwin Christ Church course Darwin dear doubt Dunskaith essay experiments fact feel Francis Darwin friends G. J. ROMANES Geanies gemmules GEORGE JOHN ROMANES George Romanes give glad graft hear hope Huxley hybrid intercrossing interesting isolation jelly-fish kind lecture letter light look Medusa ment Mental Evolution mind Miss C. E. Romanes natural selection never observed organism origin Oxford Paget Pangenesis paper physiological selection plants polypite Professor published question regards Regent's Park Romanes Lecture Ross-shire Royal Society Sanderson scientific seeds seems self-adaptation sent sexual sincerely sonnet sorry species sterility suppose tell thanks theory thing thought tion tissue to-day variations Victor Horsley Weismann write written wrote yesterday