SKETCH OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, BART, M. P. in 



English land-owner. He has contributed to political literature, though 

 not so voluminously as to scientific, and he has taken an active part in 

 measures to promote the extension and improvement of science-teach- 

 ing in the schools. The amount of work that he has done could have 

 been accomplished at his age only by means of the most indefatigable 

 industry, and the most economical use of time. He has always been 

 an early riser, and contrives, whenever it is possible, to get three or 

 four hours' work in the morning before breakfast. His career is an 

 example of what can be accomplished in a life well spent. No doubt, 

 says a biographer, many adventitious advantages existed in his case, 

 which poorer men do not possess. He had no anxiety as to bread ; 

 but, on the other hand, he does as much mechanical work every day 

 as would entitle him to a very fair return for his labors. Moreover, 

 the calls of his public position make inroads on his time, of which the 

 man who is his own master, by reason of his living in the by-ways of 

 the world, has little idea. 



Sir John has received the appointment of the crown as a member 

 of the Senate of the University of London, and has been for several 

 years vice-chancellor of the same institution. He has also been a trustee 

 of the British Museum, a member of the Public School Commission, a 

 member of the International Monetary Commission, and a member of 

 the Royal Commission for the Advancement of Science. In literary, 

 scientific, and scholastic honors he is a Doctor of Civil Law of Oxford, 

 an LL. D. of Dublin, a Fellow of the Royal, Linnaean, Geographical, 

 Geological, and Antiquarian Societies ; he has been President of the 

 Ethnological Society, of its successor, the Anthropological Institute of 

 Great Britain, Vice-President of the Royal Society, Vice-President 

 and President of the Linnaean Society, the principal English biological 

 society ; and Vice-President and President of the British Association, 

 having been selected for the latter office to preside over the last (the 

 jubilee) meeting of the association, at York. 



Sir John Lubbock was married in 1856 to Miss Ellen Frances, 

 daughter of the Rev. Peter Hordern, of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Lanca- 

 shire, and has a family of three sons and three daughters. Lady Lub- 

 bock was a woman of considerable natural ability, and enjoyed the 

 privilege of giving much encouragement and aid to her husband by 

 the interest she took in all his pursuits. Her sympathies were also 

 extended to her husband's friends, who are still able to remember the 

 hospitable reception they used to meet at her hands. She contributed 

 a paper on " The Shell-Mounds of Denmark " to the volume of " Va- 

 cation Journals " for 1862-'63. She was a contributor to " Nature " 

 from time to time, and wrote a few articles which appeared in a pub- 

 lished form elsewhere. These works, however, " Nature " remarks, 

 " would afford but a poor criterion of all that she has directly and in- 

 directly done toward the advancement of natural science." She died 

 in 1879. 



