142 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK oh. 



and the respect which would naturally be paid 

 to any friend of the benevolent savant, who has 

 given London its new holidays, was really due 

 to this insect on its own account." 1 



In answer to an enquiry about some of the 

 recent excavations in Greece and Asia Minor he 

 received the following long and interesting letter 

 from Dr. Schliemann : 



Athens, 

 14th November 1872. 



My Lord — In answer to your esteemed lines of 

 27th ult., I beg to state that I published in November 

 and December 1871 the details of my excavations at 

 Troy in 5 Greek, in the Athenian journal, "'E^tepis nh 

 2v£»7T77cr€<oi/," and in 5 German reports in the Augsburg 

 paper, Allgemeine Zeitung. Of my excavations of this 

 year I published 9 reports in the " 'E^^pls ™v 

 2v£7tt?o-€«>v," which I send you herewith. I regret not 

 being able to send you also those of last year, because 

 I have no copy of them left. In German I have not 

 published anything this year, because I am going to 

 publish a work on Troy with 4 or 5 plans, 1 map, and 

 with the engravings of more than 1200 Trojan terra- 

 cottas or other antiquities discovered at Ilium. 



I thought I could not do better than to extract from 

 my German manuscript, which is going to be printed, 

 a summary account which I send you enclosed. The 

 latter has been written in a great hurry, and I beg you 

 to excuse the blunders it contains, but I am very busy 

 just now, and I could not write it better in the few 

 moments I have at my disposal. 



I intend to continue the excavations on the 1st 

 February next with great zeal, and, if it is agreeable to 

 you I shall have great pleasure to write you every week 

 of the result of my exertions. I shall now dig with 

 great vigour to bring to light the ancient Temple of 

 Minerva, to which will no doubt lead me the substruction 

 wall which Mr. Calvert has assuredly pointed out to you, 

 and which seems to cover the ancient slope of the entire 



1 Daily Telegraph, August 26, 1872. 



