290 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, '13 



I do not know whether you care about beetles, but for the chance 



I send this in a bottle, which T never remember having seen 



I feel like an old war horse at the sound of the trumpet when I read 

 about the capturing of rare beetles — is not this a magnanimous simile 

 for a decayed entomologist? — It really almost makes me long to be- 

 gin collecting again. 



Son, grandson and greatgrandson of three baronets, all 

 bankers, Lubbock was born in London, April 30, 1834. He 

 was an Eton scholar, but not a University man, entering his 

 father's banking house at the age of fourteen. Of this firm, 

 Robarts, Lubbock & Co., established about 1750, he subse- 

 quently became head. He took an active part in introducing 

 new clearing systems, improving the personnel of banking 

 stafifs and at various times was Secretary or President of the 

 London Bankers, Associated Chambers of Commerce, Central 

 Association of English Bankers and the London Chamber of 

 Commerce. 



In 1870 he entered the House of Commons, serving as 

 member for Maidstone, Kent, until 1880, when, defeated in 

 that borough, he was elected to represent the University of 

 London until 1890. While in Parliament he secured the pas- 

 sage of many acts having in view the improvement of the 

 working classes, the best known among these being that es- 

 tablishing the "bank holidays." 



But it is with his career as an entomologist that we are con- 

 cerned. In the list of his own papers on "the Annulosa and 

 especially of Insects," in the preface to the 1895 edition of 

 On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects, the first title is 

 On Labidocera, 1853. The list exhibits the range of his ento- 

 mological activity. Thus there are general papers, such as 

 On the Respiration of Insects. 1857; On the Oia and Pseud- 

 ova of Insects, 1858 ; On the Distribution of Tracheae in In- 

 sects, i860; On the Generative Organs and on the Formation 

 of the Egg in Annulosa, 1861 ; Metamorphoses of Insects, 

 1866. and On the Origin of Insects, 1871, in which last he 

 agreed with Brauer in considering Campodea as the form most 

 nearly approaching the ideal stem-form of the Insecta. 



On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects (first edition 



