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the top of its head like some of our own very remote 

 ancestors. 



" Certainly," said Lubbock, " and the pineal gland 

 in the human brain is the survival of that third eye 

 which we have lost and the lizard, you speak of, has 

 retained." 



Really it would not have been easy to start 

 a subject to w^hieh he could not make some 

 interesting contribution. 



On October 5 he writes : " Had final game of 

 golf with Professor Knight, and came up by the 

 night train." 



The rest of the year was spent in the usual 

 active fashion, with much work of varied kinds, 

 many visitors at High Elms, and several visits to 

 the Grant Duffs, to the Pitt Rivers, and so on. 

 At Christmas there was a family party at High 

 Elms. 



