John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834-1913)

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834-1913)

The Right Honourable John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury MP FRS DCL LLD (30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath.

He was a banker and worked with his family’s company, but was also made significant contributions in archaeology, ethnography, and several branches of biology. He helped establish archaeology as a scientific discipline, and was also influential in nineteenth-century debates concerning evolutionary theory.[1]:514

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Quotes·Quotations by Sir J. Lubbock

Rest

¶ Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. [The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation]

the Best

¶ When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. [The Pleasures of Life, vol. 1 (1887), ch. II: The Happiness of Duty]

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@ We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating. [The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation]

@ Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. [The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation]

@ What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

@ A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

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References

[1]^ a b c d e f Mithen, Steven (2006). After the ice: a global human history, 20,000–5,000 BC. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01570-3.

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Books

The following is a list of publications by Sir John Lubbock, arranged in chronological order by the dates of the first editions of each work.

Lubbock J. (1865) Pre-Historic Times, As Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages, Williams & Norgate, London
Lubbock J. (1870) The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man, Longmans, Green & Co., London
Lubbock J. (1871) Monograph on the Collembola and Thysanura, Ray Society, London
Lubbock J. (1872) On the Origin and the Metamorphoses of Insects, Macmillan & Co., London
Lubbock J. (1874) Scientific Lectures, Macmillan & Co., London
Lubbock J. (1879) Addresses, Political and Educational, Macmillan & Co., London
Lubbock J. (1881) Fifty Years of Science, Being the Address Delivered at York to the British Association, August 1881, Macmillan & Co., London
Lubbock J. (1882) Chapters in Popular Natural History, National Society, London
Lubbock J. (1883) On Representation, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Berne
Lubbock J. (1882) Flowers, Fruits and Leaves, Macmillan & Co., London
Lubbock J. (1883) On the Senses, Instincts and Intelligence of Animals, With Special Reference to Insects, Keegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd., London: 512 pp.
Lubbock J. (1887–89) The pleasures of life, (2 volumes) Macmillan & Co., London
Lubbock J. (1890) Flowers and Insects, Macmillan & Co., London
Lubbock J. (1891) Ants, Bees and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera, Keegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd., London: 442 pp.
Lubbock J. (1894) The Use of Life, Macmillan & Co., London
Lubbock J. (1898) On Buds and Stipules, Keegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd., London: 239 pp.

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