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some in shade on both. Supposing therefore that there 

 were no change in Archimedes itself in the 12 days' 

 interval, I should not expect that the two photographs 

 would correspond like the positive and negative photo- 

 graphs of the same object taken on the same occasion. 



I see Miss Shinn does not say a word as to these two 

 photographs affording any evidence of change. To 

 afford such evidence, pairs of photographs would have 

 to be compared which were taken as nearly as possible 

 at the same age of the moon for each pair. — Yours 

 sincerely, G. G. Stokes. 



Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P. 



He received, from all quarters, very many 

 acknowledgments and reviews of the book, in- 

 dicating how quickly all that he wrote found 

 appreciation even in the farthest distant corners 

 of the globe. 



On August 14 he was at Birmingham, for an 

 Early Closing Meeting — " Stayed with J. Cham- 

 berlain who made an excellent speech and went 

 in for us thoroughly. It was a very large meet- 

 ing." On the following day he was back in 

 London again at a Bank of England Meeting, 

 making what we may well suppose to be quite a 

 popular motion — " proposed to raise the salaries 

 of the Governor and Deputy Governor to £2000 

 and £1500." We may learn without surprise 

 that " it was carried unanimously." 



So, all through October the diary shows its 

 usual record of happy and unceasing activity 

 both physical and mental. He was here, there, 

 and everywhere, " to Bristol, to open the new 

 Science Buildings at the Grammar School — the 

 great hall in the school is a beautiful room," to 

 Early Closing Meetings, and so on, and then, on 

 November 3, this happy note is all changed by 



