162 IN MEMORIAM—WILLIAM COLLINGS LUKIS. 
old parish church, repairing the rectory, and enlarging the schools. 
He also filled the office of Rural Dean for eleven years in Wiltshire 
and six in Yorkshire, Whilst resident at Cambridge, he was one of 
the earliest members of and contributors to the Camden Society, 
then newly formed; and when-living at Bradford-on-Avon, he 
published a quarto volume on ‘ Ancient Church Plate,’ and a few 
years later, two pamphlets on the necessity of looking into the 
condition of Church Bells, with a view to their preservation, and 
also the security of Church Towers. In 1855, the deceased gentle- 
man read a paper before the members of the Wilts Archzeological 
Society, which was subsequently published under the title of ‘An 
Account of Church Bells, etc.’ He was a frequent contributor 
to the journals of the Archzological Institute, of the British 
Archeological Association, and of other kindred societies. 
n 1847, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of 
Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen; in 1853, a Fellow of the 
Society of Antiquaries, London; and in 1867, a member of the 
Société Archéologique de Nantes, at whose meetings he read papers 
which were printed in the Society’s Bulletin. In 1872, he was elected 
a corresponding member of the Société de Climatologie Algerienne. 
In 1875, he published a guide to the barrows and other prehistoric 
monuments of South Brittany, and contributed numerous reviews of 
archzological works to the columns of the ‘ Athenzeum,’ whilst from 
time to time he was a practical barrow digger in Wiltshire and 
Yorkshire. His first diggings were in the Guernsey Cromlechs, 
afterwards in Brittany, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. 
The Society of Antiquaries, London, published his scale plans 
of rude stone monuments, with descriptive text. In 1871, he read 
a paper before the members of the Ripon Scientific Society, of 
which he was long an active member, on the Maison de Dieu 
Hospital, at Ripon. He also contributed to the Yorkshire 
Archeological and Topographical Journal a paper on Anglo-Saxon 
graves on Howe Hill, in the parish of Burneston (North Yorkshire). 
In July 1874, the Royal Archeological Institute, in conjunction 
with the Yorkshire Archeological and Topographical Society, held 
meetings at Ripon, and visited amongst other places, Castle Dykes, 
near North Stainley, where Mr. Lukis read a paper, giving an 
account of the excavations and the relics which he, in conjunction 
with — Heslington, Sharpin, and Hebden, of Ripon, had 
act ther 
s also edited for the Surtees Society, Dr. William 
Srukéley’ s "Diaries and Letters, published in three volumes ; and 
when the Ripon Millenary Festival was celebrated, in 1886, he was 
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