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On Two Aquatic Hymenoptera, 1863, announced the dis- 

 covery of Polynema natans and Prestwichia aquatica, both of 

 which swim completely submerged, the former by means of 

 its wings, the latter by its legs. The first of a series of ten 

 Observations on Ants, Bees and Wasps appeared in the Jour- 

 nal of the Linncan Society for 1873 and continued until 1882. 

 Their results were gathered into the well-known volume, 

 Ants, Bees and Wasps (1884), in the International Scientific 

 Series. In the preface to this last he says : 



The principal point in which my mode of experimenting has dif- 

 fered from that of previous observers has been that I have carefully 

 marked and watched particular insects ; and secondly, that I have had 

 nests under observation for long periods. No one before had ever 

 kept an ant's nest for more than a few months. I have one now in my 

 room which has been under constant observation ever since 1874, i. e., 

 for more than seven years. 



The International Scientific Series includes another volume 

 by Lubbock, On the Senses, Instincts and Intelligence of Ani- 

 mals with Special Reference to Insects (1888). 



His scientific interests did not stop here. Three volumes 

 are concerned with British Wild Flowers considered in rela- 

 tion to Insects, On Seedlings, and Flowers, Fruits and Leaves. 

 Ethnology and archaeology early attracted him and he pro- 

 duced Prehistoric Times as illustrated by Ancient Remains 

 and the Manners and Customs of Modern Salvages, 1865, and 

 The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of 

 Man. When he was raised to the peerage in 1900, his title 

 was taken from the temple of Avebury in Wiltshire, the 

 greatest of all so-called Druidical monuments, which "appears 

 to have been the finest megalithic ruin in Europe." 



Better known of his books are The Use of Life, The Beau- 

 ties of Nature and The Pleasures of Life, which have had a 

 wide circulation, it being stated of the last-named as long ago 

 as 1900 that it had gone through thirty-seven editions in 

 Great Britain and twenty-five abroad, and, more recently, 

 that 259,000 copies had been sold. Still other volumes are 

 his Scientific Lectures, Political and Educational Addresses 

 and Fifty Years of Science (1881). 



Space is lacking to enumerate the numerous financial and 



