To G. J. Romanes   29 April [1876]1

6. Queen Anne St

Ap 29th

My dear Romanes

I must have the pleasure of saying that I have just heard that your lecture was a splendid success in all ways. I further hear that you were as cool as the Arctic regions. It is evident that there is no occasion for you to feel your pulse under the circumstances which we discussed—2

yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the reference to Romanes’s lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (see n. 2, below).
2
Romanes delivered his lecture, ‘The physiology of the nervous system of medusae’ (G. J. Romanes 1876), at the Royal Institution on 28 April 1876. He was evidently nervous about public speaking; see letter to G. J. Romanes, [before 26 April 1876]. CD probably met with him before the lecture; see letter to G. J. Romanes, 27 April [1876].

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Anne St.] above del ‘Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10482,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10482