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year and a-half ago must be fresh in our memories, when 

 Professor Boyd Dawkins delivered his brilliant address from 

 the summit of Hod Hill, which was illustrated by the ramparts 

 and earthworks of that prehistoric encampment. I feel sure 

 that I am only re-echoing the sincerest words of sympathy 

 from the heart of every member by conveying theirs and mine to 

 Lady Baker and to her son and daughters on this their deep 

 and sad bereavement. 



Another member of the Field Club, also one of my dearest and 

 valued friends, has just now been added to the death-roll, 

 General Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S., D.C.L., known at the 

 earlier part of his life, in the scientific world, as Colonel Lane Fox ; 

 he passed away at his country seat on Friday last, after a long 

 and painful illness. He inherited the large and widely distributed 

 Rushmore estates of Dorsetshire and Wiltshire, on the death of 

 Horace, Lord Rivers, in 1880. His antiquarian instincts, aided 

 by a scientific education, led him from his earliest career to apply 

 himself to the unravelling of some of the problems of prehistoric 

 history in connection with man. Through life-long labour and a 

 natural deductive genius, he has done as much as any 

 archaeologist in tracing the various ethnic changes which have 

 occurred in this part of the country. Before General Pitt-Rivers 

 came to reside at Rushmore he had amassed a large and valuable 

 prehistoric and mediaeval collection, which he generously gave to 

 the University of Oxford, now deposited in the Ashmolean 

 Museum, and known as " The Pitt-Rivers Collection." This 

 collection, valuable as it is, is thrown into the shade by his 

 local Museum at Farnham, in which are deposited the relics 

 found at Rushmore and the neighbourhood, and several series of 

 industrial, metallurgical, agricultural, and fictile objects from a 

 wider area, showing in a most instructive manner an evolution or 

 variation of forms by gradual development from a primitive to an 

 improved culture. The central tables of the Farnham Museum 

 are covered with 1 1 8 models of the earthworks examined by 

 General Pitt-Rivers, carved in blocks of mahogany from con- 

 toured plans, made and surveyed by himself. The walls are 



