[Romanes] Books by the Romanes family of authors

Romanes Books by the Romanes family of authors to include: Romanes (George John) Darwin, and after Darwin, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892-1897, 3 volumes, 8vo, original gilt stamped publishers cloth, three volumes (two sets); Romanes (George John) Mental Evolution in Animals, London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1885, 8vo, original publisher's cloth; Romanes (George John) The Life and Letters of George John Romanes, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896, 8vo, original publisher's cloth; together with various volumes on the Romanes Lectures; Romanes (Ethel) The Story of Port Royal, London: John Murray, 1907, 8vo, blue leather binding with silk lined endpapers, aeg; together with further volumes by Romanes authors including Norman Hugh Romanes, Mrs G. J. Romanes, Ethel Romanes and Scrivener (F. H.) Nuvum Testamentum Textus Stephanici, Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1865, 4to, publisher's cloth, inscribed for an with annotations by George John Romanes (qty)

Ethel Romanes (1856-1927) was the wife to of the 'neo-Darwinist' George John Romanes. She was a religious author and activist. Their daughter, also Ethel later became an Anglican nun.

George John was an evolutionary biologist and physiologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and other animals.

He was the youngest of Charles Darwin's academic friends, and his views on evolution are historically important. He popularized the term neo-Darwinism, which in the late 19th century was considered as a theory of evolution that focuses on natural selection as the main evolutionary force.