CHAPTER XXVI 



POLITICAL EEMINI8CENCES (1893) 



(Age 59) 



This winter he brought out his book on Seedlings, 

 of which the Athenceum remarked that " In the 

 two well-filled volumes before us {Seedlings) Sir 

 J. Lubbock presents the . . . observer with a 

 record of facts which will be consulted not only 

 long after the most popular novel of the day has 

 sunk into oblivion, but even after the most 

 seductive of hypotheses has been supplanted by 

 another." ^ 



The members of the London County Council 

 had determined to have his portrait painted by 

 subscription and hung in the Library. They en- 

 trusted the work to Mr. Collier, who humorously 

 writes : 



" I have just heard that the London County 

 Council have selected me to paint your portrait. 

 I am afraid you will scarcely share my pleasure 

 at this announcement, but I will do the best I can 

 to make the sittings as little inconvenient to you 

 as possible." 



Not only did Mr. Collier succeed in making a 



1 Athenceum, Jan. 21, 1893. 

 VOL. II 1 B 



