x LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 



CHAPTER XXIII 



CHAIRMANSHIP OF LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL 



PAGE 



Golf at High Elms — Sir Edwin Arnold's description of him 

 — Efforts to bring him back to the Gladstonians — The 

 " Origin of Man " — Chairman of London County 

 Council — Date of Ice Age .... 290 



CHAPTER XXIV 



VARIOUS ACTIVITIES 



" Best Hundred Books " — New coinage — Theatres Bill — 

 Palmerston's jeu de mot — Election to Reform Club — 

 The Empress Friedrich — Heavy work of L.C.C. — 

 His dexterity as Chairman .... 307 



CHAPTER XXV 



GIVES UP CHAIRMANSHIP OF L.C.C. 



Battle of the " Loans " in L.C.C. — Letters from Lord 

 Farrer and Lord Rosebery — Cause of the Ice Age — 

 Gives up L.C.C. Chairmanship — Election to " The 

 Club" — Meeting of Foreign Bondholders — Shop 

 Hours Bill — Letter from Professor Tyndall — Evidence 

 of change in the moon — Address at St. Thomas' 

 Hospital ....... 317 



Sir John Lubbock, from a Drawing by George 



Richmond, R.A., 1867 . . . Frontispiece 



Sketch Pedigree showing the Descent of Sir 



John Lubbock, First Baron Avebury . Face page 1 



High Elms ..... Face page 192 



