FIGHTING THE INSECTS 



my shoulder and said in that utterly charming way of his, 

 "My dear boy, it's not what's on your head that counts; it's 

 what's in it!" 



At the final banquet I was much impressed by the opening 

 words of Sir John Evans' remarks. He said, as I remember it, 

 "If it be given a man to write his own epitaph, I should like 

 to word mine now: 'Here lies the body of Sir John Evans, who I 

 had the great honor of presiding over the Toronto meeting of the ,^ 

 British Association, and who, during his lifetime, did a little I 

 toward the establishment of archaeology as a science.' " Down to ' 

 that time it had never occurred to me that any archaeologist 

 had ever considered his pursuit as non-scientific. 



At this Toronto meeting I had my first introduction to the 

 "Red Lion Club" of the British Association. This club is, or l| 

 was, composed of the convivial members of the association, and 

 at each meeting it was their custom to give a dinner at which 

 there was all sorts of fun (a corresponding organization in the 

 American Association for years was known as "Section Q"). 

 At the Red Lion dinners all of the members were supposed to 

 be lions. There were two or three ushers, known as jackals, 

 whose wands of office were representations of human thigh 

 bones, made of wood, but colored with red paint. It was not 

 permitted to laugh, but the lions were expected to roar. At 

 every dinner certain new men were initiated as cubs. At this 

 Toronto dinner there were twelve Americans, and it would 

 have taken too long to initiate each one separately, so a single 

 one was chosen to personify the dozen. This happened to be 

 General A. W. Greely, the Arctic explorer. The King Lion 

 who presided was Professor MacAlister, the mathematician of 

 the University of Dubhn. He said, "I shall not only initiate 

 General Greely into the mysteries of full-blown Red Lionship, 

 but I will in addition confer upon him the degree of D.D." 



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