In Memoriam, William Collins Luhis, M.A., F.S.A. 101 



of a cromlech in this county. In Yorkshire, too, he did much good 

 work in this direction. In 1870 he read before our Society at 

 Salisbury a carefully-prepared paper on the " Stone Avenues of Carnac," 

 and in 1875 he published a very useful " Guide to the principal 

 Chambered Barrows and other Prehistoric Monuments of South 

 Brittany." Previously to this he had read papers at Nantes " Bur 

 la Denomination des Dolmens ou Cromlechs" and on " Monuments 

 Megalithiques en AlgerieJ" In fine he from time to time contributed 

 to the publications of several French as well as English antiquarian 

 societies, including amongst the latter the Journal of the " Royal 

 Archaeological Institute of Great Britain," the Journal of the 

 " British Archaeological Association," and above all the " Archce- 

 ologia " of the " Society of Antiquaries," of which he was elected a 

 Fellow in 1853, and which enlisted his services during many summer 

 holidays, to make accurate plans of rude stone monuments in several 

 counties in England ; notably in Devon and Cornwall, as well as 

 our own pre-eminent Abury and Stonehenge, of both of which he 

 made not only very careful plans, but also an accurate portrait of 

 every stone, done to scale, in the measurements of which the writer 

 of this memoir assisted. These plans are now at Burlington House, 

 in the care of the Society of Antiquaries, who, we sincerely trust, 

 will be induced to publish them, at no distant date. Mr. Lukis 

 also edited some of the volumes of the Surtees Society, and while 

 at Cambridge and subsequently, was a member of the Ray Club, 

 and took some part in their publications. 



Thus well known as an archaeologist of no mean attainments, both 

 at home and abroad, it is no wonder that he was elected, in 1847, 

 a Fellow of the "Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries," in 

 Copenhagen; in 1867 a Member of the " Societe Archeologique 

 de Nantes " ; and in 1872 a Corresponding Member of the " Societe 

 de Climatologie Algerienne." He was also, as shown above, a 

 member of all our great archaeological societies in this country, but 

 by none more honoured than by those who worked with him during 

 his residence in Wilts, the earlier members of the "Wiltshire 

 Archaeological and Natural History Society." 



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