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The Wiltshire Archaeological Society, naturally 

 taking much interest in the question, appointed 

 a Committee to examine the evidence, and 

 invited Mr. Ferguson and Sir John Lubbock to 

 attend, which they did. The examination took 

 place in October. Two trenches were cut, and 

 evidence was discovered which satisfied Mr. 

 Ferguson that the road diverged, as Sir John 

 had maintained. 



It is singular to find him thus early interesting 

 himself in the site of these splendid Druidical 

 monoliths at Avebury, which must have been to 

 Stonehenge, as an old writer says, as a cathedral 

 to a parish church. Later he acquired the hill, 

 with the few remnants of the great stones that the 

 vandalism of the local builders had left, and 

 eventually took his title thence. 



His father had left a fine mathematical 

 library at High Elms, and as none of the family 

 were serious students of this science he offered 

 to the Royal Society the choice of such volumes 

 as they might not have in their library. It was 

 an offer the more gratefully accepted on account 

 of the long association of his father with the 

 Society, and of his own more recent relations 

 with it. The rest of the volumes were given to 

 the London Mathematical Society. 



In September he and Lady Lubbock attended 

 the British Association meeting at Nottingham. 

 They had lodgings with Mr. and Mrs. Busk, 

 Tyndall and Hirst. He took the Chair at the 

 Red Lion dinner, and at the end of the evening 

 the landlord tendered him 10s., which he said 

 he understood was the subscription, and which 



