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Sir John Lubbock has also served on three important 

 public Commissions ; he was a member of the Public 

 School Commission, of the Royal Commission for the 

 Advancement of Science, and of the International 

 Monetary Commission. 



In Science Sir John Lubbock is scarcely less dis- 

 tinguished than he is in the Mercantile and Parliamentary 

 spheres of life. His labours have been principally 

 directed to researches into the development, habits 

 and structures of the lower animals, chiefly insects and 

 Crustacea, and on the History of Civilisation, as Illus- 

 trated by the Habits and Customs of Ancient and 

 Modern Savages. On the first of these subjects he has 

 published an elaborate treatise under the title of the 

 Monograph of the Thysanura and Collembola, and more 

 popular works, on The Origin and Metamorphoses of 

 Insects, and on Wild Flowers Considered in Relation 

 to Insects, and more than 60 Memoirs in the Trans- 

 actions of the Royal and other Scientific Societies. 

 Some of his Lectures on Botany and Entomology 

 have recently been published in a separate volume, 

 as a companion to one of Educational and Financial 

 Essays. 



On the development of civilisation, Sir John Lubbock 

 has written two standard works, Prehistoric Times, as 

 illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and 

 Customs of Modern Savages, which has passed through 

 five editions, and The Origin of Civilisation and the 

 Primitive Condition of Man, which has passed through 

 three editions, and both of which have been translated 

 into all the principal European languages. 



Sir John Lubbock has received numerous distinctions, 

 which show the appreciation in which he is held. Besides 

 being the Vice-Chancellor of our University, he is a 

 Trustee of the British Museum, an Oxford Doctor of 

 Civil Law, a Doctor of Laws of Dublin, a Fellow of the 

 Royal, Linnean, Geographical, Geological, Antiquarian 

 and other Societies. He has been President of the 

 Ethnological Society, of its successor, the Anthropo- 

 logical Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and of 

 the Entomological Society. He has been Vice-President 

 of the British Association and of the Royal and Linnean 

 Societies ; and is Honorary Member of many of the most 

 important foreign Scientific Societies. 



