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	George John Romanes Family
		George Romanes must have travelled that road often while courting the younger sister of the Rev. John Smith, minister of the Kirk in Beckwith township, Their banns were entered in the Beckwith minutes, and they were married on August 12, 1835.
		The Rev. George Romanes, a graduate of Edinburgh University, licentiated to preach, was a local missionary in the capital.
		The Rev. George Romanes in 1866 on the motion of Professor Murray, seconded by Professor Williamson, was elected Fellow in the Faculty of Law of Queen's University.
	post.queensu.ca /~forsdyke/romanes.htm (12398 words)

	Letters to "Nature" Regarding George Romanes's Theory of Physiological Selection, by Alfred Russel Wallace
		Romanes objects to the assumption of Darwin, "that the same variation occurs simultaneously in a number of individuals," adding: "Of course, if this assumption were granted, there would be an end of the present difficulty"; and his whole argument on this branch of the question rests on the assumption being false.
		Romanes states, as the special feature of his physiological varieties, that "they cannot escape the preserving agency of physiological selection." He gives no particle of proof of this, while I show that, on the contrary, it is hardly possible for them to survive to a second or third generation.
		Romanes speaks of his supposed variations as "showing some degree of sterility with the parent form," while continuing to be fertile "within the limits of the varietal form"; but I hold that any such variety (beyond single individuals) can hardly exist, while he has adduced no proof whatever of their existence.
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/wallace/S390AND.htm (2875 words)

	Chapter 1 (1859-1916)
		George Cuvier (1796-1832) for example (while wrestling with the problem of how it could be that extinct animals could be reconstructed from fossil deposits) suggested that a series of floods had wiped out these old creations and cleared the way for new creations.
		While Romanes (1888), explicitly demurred from this pure continuity view of mental evolution, advocating instead "qualitative differences" between species, the dye was already cast and the vast majority of subsequent comparative psychology advocated variations on the continuity theme (diagram after Tolman, 1987a).
		One of the indications of the transitional status of Romanes' (1888) position is that the former (1884) diagram reappears in essentially unaltered form.
	www.comnet.ca /~pballan/C1P1.htm (7232 words)

	George John Romanes - LoveToKnow 1911
		GEORGE JOHN ROMANES (1848-1894), British biologist, was born at Kingston, Canada, on the 10th of May 1848, being the third son of the Rev. George Romanes, D.D., professor of Greek at the university of that town.
		In 1890 he left London and settled at Oxford, where he.'founded a lecture similar to the "Rede" of Cambridge, to be delivered annually on a scientific or literary topic.
		Romanes was awarded the Burney prize at Cambridge in 1873 for an essay on "Christian Prayer and General Laws." Five years later, under the pseudonym "Physicus," he issued A Candid Examination of Theism, in which he showed himself out of accord with orthodox religious beliefs.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /George_John_Romanes (340 words)

	Cynkus_Joslyn
		Romanes became interested in Charles Darwin's (1809-1882) theory of evolution, and his letter to the editor of Nature (1873) pertaining to the theory elicited a favorable reply from Darwin and began a close friendship that lasted until Darwin's death.
		Although Romanes continued his work in physiology (e.g., his early research on jellyfish contributed to development of the concept of the synapse), he also began to apply the theory of evolution to the evolution of intelligence.
		Romanes intended only to use the behavioral observations as a basis to form his own interpretations, but he did not explicitly reject the observers' interpretations.
	www.uga.edu /honors/curo/symposium/2001program/Cynkus_Joslyn.htm (483 words)

	The Problem of Utility: Are Specific Characters Always or Generally Useful? by Alfred Russel Wallace
		Romanes' discussion of the question is so lengthy, the problem itself is in its essence a comparatively simple one, and is I believe capable of being solved by a reference to well-known facts and admitted principles.
		Romanes makes a good point against me when he says that in imputing their origin and development to the surplus vitality and energy of the male I give away my case, since I admit that useless specific characters may be developed independently of natural selection.
		Romanes to prove that the constant characters which distinguished them from common rabbits were only results of the action of peculiar conditions on individuals, and were not produced by natural selection.
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/wallace/S527.htm (4171 words)

	George Romanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George John Romanes (May 19, 1848–May 23, 1894) was a Canadian-born English naturalist and psychologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and animals.
		Romanes was born in Kingston, Ontario, the third son of George Romanes, a scottish Presbyterian minister.
		Romanes founded a series of free public lectures – still running to the present day – which are named the Romanes Lectures after him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_John_Romanes (279 words)

	Psychology History
		In 1848 George Romanes was born in Kingston, Ontario, but when he was a child his parents moved to Britain.
		Romanes and Bateson did not have as much faith in this viewpoint as others did and only now are we able to realize the points they were trying to make.
		Romanes explained that a variation could form and would make some organisms more sterile with other members of the species, but may not affect the somatic characters.
	muskingum.edu /~psychology/psycweb/history/romanes.htm (981 words)

	Psyography: Biographies on Psychologists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Georges younger sister Charlotte Elizabeth Romanes was born in England and died unmarried in Scotland on January 17,1911.
		George wanted to show that there was “no difference” between the acts of reasons performed by a crab and the acts of reason performed by a human.
		George Romanes is often criticized because of his fine lines between the fact and subjective interpretation of his data.
	faculty.frostburg.edu /mbradley/psyography/romanes.html (1799 words)

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		George John Romanes--the author within the last few years of _Darwin and After Darwin_, and of the _Examination of Weismannism_--occupied a distinguished place in contemporary biology.
		From the few words which George Romanes said to me on the subject, I have no doubt that he realized that the notes if published after his death must be published with his name.
		In 1873 an essay of George Romanes gained the Burney Prize at Cambridge, the subject being _Christian Prayer considered in relation to the belief that the Almighty governs the world by general laws_.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/6/9/4/16942/16942-8.txt (15043 words)

	Romanes \| George John \| 1848-1894 \| biologist
		George John Romanes (1848-1894), the eminent Darwinist scientist, was born in Canada, but brought up in London.
		Despite early strong religious beliefs, Romanes was converted to Darwinism, and wrote a critical treatise on theism, under the pseudonym Physicus.
		Romanes' childhood ill health caught up with him in later life, and he moved to Oxford to escape the unhealthy atmosphere of London.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0694.html (349 words)

	Mental Evolution
		"Romanes had taken upon himself the task of elucidating a theory of mental development in which the genesis of mind is to be traced from non-mental elements, i.e., from instinct and reflex action and, indeed, from physiology itself.
		Although Romanes adopted Darwin's threefold classification of reflex action, instinct, and intelligence (or reason), these were now understood as forming an evolutionary series, and, equally important, reflex action and instinct were no longer considered as part of the mental, i.e., mind.
		According to Romanes, the physiological function underlying this development, was selective excitability or the power of discriminating between different kinds of stimuli.
	www.comnet.ca /~pballan/Mentevol.htm (3220 words)

	The Path to the Chromosome Theory of Heredity
		Romanes wrote that Darwin and Weismann’s theories “constitute the logical extremes of explanatory thought” (Romanes, 1).
		Ideas in Germ-Plasm Theory include heredity being transmitted through a chemical or molecular substance; and the soma and the germ plasm composing an organism, where the soma makes the body of the organism and the germ plasm having the cells that become gametes and is segregated from soma during the development of the egg.
		Romanes was a big supporter of pangenesis but knew that there was something missing.
	campus.udayton.edu /~hume/Chromosomes/chromo.htm (2107 words)

	Banner of Truth Trust General Articles
		George Romanes was born into wealth, went mostly uneducated, but later in life turned to science.
		Romanes, after Darwin's death, was converted from Darwinism over a very long period of time, being troubled mainly by Darwin's atheism.
		In connection with the life story of Romanes, the author makes an interesting observation concerning the explanation of Darwin's influence on "a wide variety of disciplines and professions in all countries and on all cultures from 1859 to the present."
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?989 (990 words)

	Evolution: The Origin and Subsequent Elaboration of the 'Chromosomal' Hypothesis of Hybrid Sterility
		Romanes wrote two letters to the sceptical Darwin expressing an inclination (short-lived) to believe in the phenomena he had observed.
		Romanes died in 1894 at age 46, and is remembered today mainly as Darwin's protege, and for the annual Romanes Lecture series which he endowed at Oxford.
		Romanes and Gulick had been separately climbing towards the peak of a high mountain, for much of the time their heads being lost in the clouds.
	post.queensu.ca /~forsdyke/evolutio.htm (7598 words)

	Donald R. Forsdyke, "Darwin's Research Associate, George John Romanes"
		Darwin was well aware that there were major inconsistencies in his 1859 theory of the origin of species by natural selection and he spent the rest of his life attempting to resolve them.
		In 1886 Romanes presented a theory of the origin of species by “physiological selection” to the Linnean Society.
		He was strongly attacked by the elder statesmen of science - Wallace and Huxley - and died of a brain tumour at age 46 in 1894.
	www.er.uqam.ca /nobel/r20430/schps_toronto_2002/forsdyke.html (211 words)

	Publications - George Romanes
		A 19th century naturalist, George John Romanes (May 19 1848 - May 23 1894), coined the term, and laid the foundation of, Comparative psychology, and postulated a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and animals.
		When he was two years old, his parents returned to England, and he sent the rest of his life in England.
		Romanes founded a series of free public lectures - still running to the present day- which are named the Romanes Lectures after him.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Aberdonia3436/george-romanes-publications.html (208 words)

	The Origin of Species Revisited. Forsdyke.
		Romanes pointed out that Darwin's main work The Origin of species did not solve the mechanism behind the origin of species, although it solved the origin of adaptations.
		Ernst Mayr (3) stated: "It is not nearly so widely recognised that Darwin failed to solve the problem indicated in the title of his work." This is ironic considering the fact that Romanes was ignored by the leading Darwinists, and that this failure of Darwin was not really mentioned in the textbooks of evolution.
		Mayr (4) mentions Romanes shortly together with Gulick, and claims that he himself rediscovered and included the distinction 'transformation of species/ splitting of species' in the evolutionary synthesis in 1942.
	home.wxs.nl /~gkorthof/korthof53.htm (2121 words)

	An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, American ...
		CD begins greeting Romanes by name in salutations to letters on December 16, 1874, but this letter begins with "My dear sir".
		The earlier date is preferred because Romanes had not yet met the Huxleys at time this letter was written.
		Thanks for news of the case of the goose; seems to show inheritance of the effects of injury; such cases are rare and should be examined; send wing to CD, if possible; see if goose had normal offspring before injury.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/d/darwin4.htm (6905 words)

	Alibris: Romanes
		Romanes, British biologist, was personal friends with Charles Darwin who had substantial influence on his studies.
		Despite early strong religious beliefs, Romanes was converted to Darwinism.
		Analyzing and rejecting the various arguments adduced against the continuity of descent as applied to human mind and building a positive case based on presumed parallels between ontogenetic and phylogenetic development, Romanes presented the classic...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Romanes (507 words)

	Vital Science Notes to Ch.2
		Helland strongly attacks Gertrude Himmelfarb's contention in 'Varieties of social Darwinism' (in her Victorian Minds) that Huxley kept Darwinism depoliticised; ie that he succeeds in his expressed wish never to give his sanction to the application of Darwinism to any social theory or practice.
		499-517), George John Romanes reacted to 'Mr Herbert Spencer on "natural selection"' with a long-drawn-out demonstration 'that the whole of this line of evidence is practically worthless' (p.
		50-9) by Romanes and Marcus Hartog in tandem.
	www.mega.nu:8080 /ampp/PeterMorton/vs2_notes.htm (900 words)

	Princeton University Office of the President - Strange Bedfellows: Science, Politics, and Religion
		Established by fellow biologist George Romanes in 1892, the lecture has featured a wide array of speakers, from Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to Saul Bellow.
		Yet from the very beginning, science and politics, especially religiously inspired politics, had the potential to become “strange bedfellows,” by which I mean working at cross-purposes with one another, rather than in harmony.
		On January 14, 2004, President George W. Bush announced major new goals for the publicly funded exploration of space, most prominently, the goals of sending humans back to the moon by 2015 and eventually to Mars.
	www.princeton.edu /president/pages/20060125/index.xml (1974 words)

	George Herbert Mead: Review of "An Introduction to Comparative Psychology" by C.L. Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Morgan's work, intended as an antidote to George John Romanes's earlier work on animal psychology — Animal Intelligence (Romanes, 1882) — remains anecdotal.
		Unlike Romanes, Morgan subjected his field observations to detailed analysis and tests.
		Mead's criticism, however focuses on the approach, which is informed more by synthesis through analogy than conceptual analysis.
	spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Mead/pubs/Mead_1895a.html (1023 words)

	Facts: Human Evolution: Conclusions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This species would be the first one to understand the world and know its Creator.
		George Romanes (quoted above) pondered over why God had created humans very alike to apes.
		I may add that Allah also created other signs, such as the preserved remains of the early humans, of which some are very revealing like Toumai, Taung Child, Lucy, Zinj, the habilis foot (OH 8), Turkana Boy, and Neanderthals.
	redrival.com /evolusi/humevol6.htm (651 words)

	Romanes Lecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Romanes Lecture is a prestigious free public lecture given annually at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.
		The lecture series was founded by, and named after, the biologist George Romanes, and has been running since 1892.
		The lecture can be on any subject in science, art or literature, approved by the Vice-Chancellor of the University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romanes_Lecture (1025 words)

	Donald R
		He felt that these physiological peculiarities may involve the reproductive system and in a series of works that received a mixed reception from his contemporaries made his case for this mode of speciation.
		If Forsdyke’s theory turns out to be right (and it is currently not widely accepted by evolutionary biologists), perhaps the Victorians did not reach his “childishly simple” conclusion because they did not have the technology to both conceptualize and prove it?
		Whatever the merits of the scientific theory, Forsdyke’s historical analysis is severely flawed, consisting as it does of examining the writings of Romanes, John Thomas Gulick, and William Bateson for foreshadowings of his own biological research.
	www.public.asu.edu /~jmlynch/smalldocs/forsdyke.html (599 words)

	Forsdyke Laboratory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Grant Allen, George Romanes, Stephen Jay Gould and the evolution establishments of their times.
		Heat shock proteins as mediators of aggregation-induced "danger" signals: implications of the slow evolutionary fine-tuning of sequences for the antigenicity of cancer cel1.
		Relationship of Romanes' "intrinsic" variability of the reproductive system, and Bateson's "residue", to the species-dependent component of the base composition, (C+G)%.
	crystal.biochem.queensu.ca /forsdyke (1217 words)

	George John Romanes - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George John Romanes (1848 - 1894) was an English naturalist who was a pioneer of the field of comparative psychology and animal intelligence.
		Romanes was educated in medicine at the University of Combridge and was friends with Charles Darwin.
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	wiki.cotch.net /index.php/George_John_Romanes (68 words)

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