viii LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 

 CHAPTER XV 



VARIOUS CORRESPONDENCE 



PAGE 



M. E. Reclus — Sketch in the World — Stonehenge — Morley 

 and Gladstone at High Elms — Death of Mr. Mul- 

 holland — History of £1 notes — Letter from B. St. 

 Hilaire — Babylonian bankers — The Companies Act 

 Amendment — Death of Lady Lubbock . .153 



CHAPTER XVI 



MEMBER FOR LONDON UNIVERSITY 



Ancient Monuments Bill passed — Turned out for Maidstone 

 — Election for London University — Presides over 

 Jubilee meeting of British Association — His brothers — 

 Meets Miss Fox Pitt — Faculty for asking questions 

 of Nature — At Algiers . . . . .167 



CHAPTER XVII 



THE DEATH OF DARWIN 



Ill-health — Marriage of Mrs. Sydney Buxton — Interest of 

 Royal Family in his Insect Studies — Death and burial 

 of Darwin — His attitude towards science and religion 

 — Murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish — With Ruskin 

 at Avebury — Mr. Bishop, the thought-reader — Greater 

 freedom from business ties . . . .182 



CHAPTER XVIII 



SECOND MARRIAGE 



Scouring the White Horse— Stonehenge— Bank Holidays 

 and drunkenness — Reduction of National Debt — 

 Caricature in Punch — Miss Alice Fox Pitt — Propor- 

 tional representation — Games of Fives — Marries Miss 

 Fox Pitt — Terrific speech-making . . .192 



