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Abstract

WE are sure our readers of all shades of politics must regret that Sir John Lubbock has lost his seat in Parliament. We have nothing to do with the immediate causes of his defeat, but for the sake of science and enlightened legislation we trust he may find some other constituency liberal enough in the best sense of the term, to choose him as its representative. Meantime his loss is to some extent made up for by the election of Prof. Maskelyne, though we trust the latter's duties as a legislator will not lead, to the neglect of what we consider his much higher function of original research.