238 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



This is the only female Lampyris I have seen here, although near 

 Lausanne I have seen several, but probably of a different species, as 

 their light was more conspicuous and slightly greenish. The Hum- 

 ming-bird Hawk-Moth was first seen on Feb. 3rd, a small white 

 butterfly on Feb. 7th, and the Brimstone Butterfly on March 14th. — 

 J. E. McClymont (Maison Boche, Avenue Carnot, Mentone, France). 



OBITUAEY. 



Lord Avebury. 



Lord Avebury, perhaps better remembered as the once Sir John 

 Lubbock, passed away on May 28th last at his seaside residence, 

 Kingsgate Castle, near Margate. He was born in London on April 

 30th, 1834, and after three years at Eton entered his father's bank at 

 the age of fifteen, being at the time of his death head of the firm of 

 Bobarts, Lubbock & Co., and will be remembered as an acknowledged 

 authority in finance, a well-known politician, an anthropologist prin- 

 cipally from the archaeological and social standpoint, and a naturalist 

 in restricted and special groups of animal life. Lord Avebury belonged 

 to the Victorian era, and was a man of varied taste and busy life ; 

 his business training and courteous manner, apart from his scientific 

 knowledge, made him an excellent president, and his official positions 

 in the scientific arena showed that these qualities were not un- 

 recognized. 



It is, however, with his zoological services that we are now 

 interested, especially those relating to anthropology. In this field he 

 contributed to the knowledge of the student in books that could be 

 read with interest by a large class of general readers. His ' Fre- 

 historic Times ' (1865), and ' The Origin of Civilization and the 

 Brimitive Condition of Man ' (1870), of which there was subsequently 

 more than one edition, were excellent examples of arguments based 

 on available information, much of which has now been supplemented, 

 and some qualified, by subsequent investigators. Their effect in 

 introducing anthropological conclusions to the educated public in the 

 early days of the science of man in this country was more than 

 considerable. 



In entomology he wrote ' The Origin and Metamorphosis of 

 Insects ' (1873), ' British Wild Flowers considered in Belation to 



