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of people came to look at us from the gallery, and 

 we were told afterwards that it was because only 

 three ladies had previously dined in Trinity Hall — 

 viz. Queen Elizabeth, Queen Caroline, and Queen 

 Victoria ! " 



On the 25th of August he went to Scotland with 

 Lady Lubbock, paying a round of visits. They 

 stayed for a fortnight, first with the Galloways, 

 and then with the Lyells, at Kinordy, where he 

 was interested in seeing capercailzie for the first 

 time. Thence he went on to Aberdeen for the 

 British Association meeting, where he read a 

 paper to a very large audience on Ants, Bees, 

 and Wasps, and took other active part in the 

 meeting. From Aberdeen they went, with the 

 Rayleighs, to Haddo, and from Haddo, by way 

 of Nairn and Invergarry, to Loch Hourn to stay 

 with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Birkbeck. " Very 

 glad to get to Mary's at last," he writes, on 

 September 21 (Mary was his sister, who was 

 married to Mr. Robert Birkbeck). " Joyful 

 meeting ! " 



They arrived home on the 27th. Sir John 

 notes, " Comfortable journey. Found all well." 



On October 1 he was at Birmingham, un- 

 veiling the statue of Sir J. Mason, the founder of 

 Mason's College. The Birmingham Gazette of 

 the following day spoke of " the splendid address 

 of Sir John Lubbock, full of suggestive force. 

 It cannot be read without awakening ideas which 

 strengthen and broaden as the mind dwells upon 

 them. It was an eulogium on the benefactor 

 he came to honour, but it was much more. It 

 was a sermon on science, finished, fervent, and 



