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tion by the Romans,” and in the following circular issued to the 
subscribers in November, 1843, two lectures are announced to be 
given by Mr. Lubbock in the ensuing year, “ On the vertebrated 
animals of Norfolk.” 
“ The members will learn with much pleasure that a series of lectures, 
having a peculiar local interest from their being dedicated to the illustration 
of the Geology, Flora, Fauna, and Antiquities of Norfolk, will be delivered 
during the ensuing season. The institution will be indebted for these to 
Professor Sedgwick, R. J. Mann, and Thomas Brightwell, Esqs., and the 
Revs. R. Lubbock and R. Hart.” 
These were evidently the last which he prepared with the laud- 
able object of exciting an interest in the natural history collections 
of the Museum, and, as we gather from the preface to his ‘Fauna,’ 
published in the following year (1845), formed the foundation of 
that work. It is somewhat singular, however, that the Museum 
records make no reference to a lecture preserved amongst his other 
MSS. on a subject somewhat apart from his usual topics, although 
a vein of natural history runs through many of its interesting 
pages. The subject of this paper, for it bears no written title, may 
be described as observations on the conquest of America and the 
Aboriginal inhabitants, with special reference to the southern 
portions of the New World, Mexico, and the ruined cities of 
Central America. The date at which this lecture was delivered 
would probably be between 1841 and 1843, from the fact of his 
alluding, in the earlier portion, to Mr. Gatlin’s “ recent work ” on 
North America (published in 1841), the exhaustive character of 
which had induced him to confine his remarks to the more southern 
portions of that great continent. The paper is ably written, and 
evinces a very considerable amount of archaeological as well as his- 
torical research, in a branch of literature which, apart from natural 
history associations, had always attractions for him — travel and 
exploration. 
His connection with the Norwich Museum naturally led to an 
intimacy witli other local naturalists, botli of the field and the 
closet, including the Presidents of those days, Professor Sedgwick, 
Thomas Brightwell, Dawson Turner, Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart., 
Captain Glasspoole, Rev. W. Kirby, and his valued friend and 
Diocesan, the late Bishop Stanley. The annual dinner too of the 
members, under the chairmanship of the President of the year 
