Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and biologist. Pseudonyms: Physicus, Metaphysicus. Alternative signature: George J. Romanes. Born in Kingston, Ontario. Son of Reverend George Romanes and Isabella Gair Smith. Friends with Charles Darwin. Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Worked as a scientist, free from financial needs due to inherited wealth. Married Ethel Duncan on 11 February 1879. Publications include many essays and books on scientific subjects, many of which continue expanding Darwin’s theories. A volume of poetry, A Selection From the Poems of George John Romanes (1896), was published posthumously. Biographical information: ODNB. (BGL)