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under the stress of daily toil. A Prime Minister, with 

 the cares of the Empire on his shoulders, has found time 

 in the course of a busy public life to master many 

 departments of science, with a thoroughness which enabled 

 him to deliver a Presidential Address to the British 

 Association. The name of Sir John Lubbock, now Lord 

 Avebury, is familiar to all of us. Distinguished as an 

 anthropologist, he has pursued with industrious tenacity 

 specialised enquiries in the field of Entomology. Eminent 

 banker, head of various commercial institutions, an active 

 leading "city man," a member of Parliament, a keen 

 politician, preserver of ancient monuments, and originator 

 of statutes tending to social welfare, a prolific writer on 

 politics, economics, and literature, he has 3^et found time 

 to compose works requiring close and laborious scientific 

 investigations in the study and in the open field. And 

 turning to our own neighbourhood, I feel it a duty to 

 refer to one now departed from us, who was indeed a 

 marvel. For with the daily calls of his profession he 

 was able to acquire a vast amount of knowledge in 

 many sciences. Further, in literature, in history, in 

 antiquities, and even in family genealogies, James Hardy 

 was always prepared to take his part. A tradesman 

 in Oxford Street, London, skilled in the manufacture 

 of hunting-boots, was so far a scientist as to deliver a 

 lecture to a Natural History Society on Marine Algae, 

 showing many specimens, and giving the technical names 

 of all, though there does not appear a very intimate 

 connection between a pair of Wellingtons in a West 

 End shop and a sea- weed floating on our Eastern coast. 

 An anonymous writer of a paper or pamphlet addressed 

 to Lord Bolingbroke about 1736, entitled "Theory of 

 Agreeable Sen.sations," says that "the pleasures of the 

 mind, of friendship, joy, and inward satisfaction, attend 

 upon a middling station as upon the pomp of princes." 

 You will observe that the writer stops at "middling 

 station." In his day the idea that it was possible to 



