816 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ch. 



On the last day of the month he writes : " Not 

 having been quite so well I have been kept in bed 

 and could not go to the Home Rule division." By 

 the 6th of February, however, he was well enough 

 to travel to Kingsgate. They were there for a 

 week, and then "to London. We had beautiful 

 weather, but both Alice and I were very suffering. 

 I have an article in the Nineteenth Century on 

 ' A Study of Preference,' in which I endeavour to 

 show that if duties are not to be put on either 

 Raw materials or Food, no preference can be 

 given, for the simple reason that the Colonies 

 send us nothing else." 



On February 22 he writes : " I was able to go to 

 the British Museum meeting. We had the wonder- 

 ful Sussex skull exhibited — the most Simian of any 

 yet found. I have been, since we got back, able 

 to do very little, and principally worked at my 

 new edition of Prehistoric Times." 



This " Sussex " skull is that generally called 

 the Pilt-down skull, from the place, in Sussex, 

 where it was found. 



It was on the 27th of the month that, as he 

 says, and as before told by Lady Avebury, " the 

 Duke of Argyll, Sir F. Lascelles, Sir E. Tritton, 

 and other members of the Anglo-German Friend- 

 ship Committee came to Grosvenor Street and 

 presented me with a charming but, I fear, too 

 complimentary address." On March 4 he writes : 

 " There is to be a Hindoo translation of The Use 

 of Life. There is already one in Urdu, Gujerati, 

 and Mahratti." 



One of their guests at Kingsgate this month 

 was Mr. Norman Angell, who had not long before 



