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of a public library at Salisbury, and for the un- 

 veiling of a statue of Sir T. Browne at Norwich." 



The Botany book referred to came out at 

 the end of November under the title of The Life 

 History of British Plants, and was very well 

 received. He was at Salisbury opening the 

 library spoken of, on October 2. On the 18th 

 he went to Norwich as the guest of Mr. Gurney 

 Buxton to unveil the statue of Sir Thomas 

 Browne. Mr. Buxton, in his letter of invitation, 

 gives him the choice of " a shoot or golf " as an 

 added inducement. He would have little hesita- 

 tion in choosing the latter, and indeed, says that 

 they had a very pleasant game on the Norwich 

 course, which is a very good one of its inland 

 kind. 



Shooting was not a sport which had at any 

 time made much appeal to him, but he did take 

 out a gun now and then, and Sir Herbert Maxwell 

 has sent me a nice little anecdote about him : 

 " He was standing at the end of a covert, waiting 

 for the beaters to come out. A country man was 

 beside him, either as loader or general attendant. 

 Beside them was a heap of stones gathered off 

 the fields. Lubbock, always ready to quicken 

 the intelligence of any who might be in his 

 company, said to the man : 



' Do you know how these stones were made ? ' 



' Why, sir, I 'spect they growed, same as 

 'taturs.' 



' Well,' rejoined Lubbock, ' but if they lay 

 there for fifty years, they would not get any 

 bigger.' 



' No, sir, in course they wouldn't — same as 



