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11 gru 2013 · This special issue arose out of a conference to mark the centenary of John Lubbock's death. A group of scholars and of Lubbock's descendants met at the Royal Society on 22 March 2013 to reassess the science of John Lubbock.
9 wrz 2022 · After Lubbock's death the dominant view among scientific experts was that Lubbock's researches on ants were his most important work (Donisthorpe, 1924), and more specifically, that he was “a pioneer of the experimental study of animal behaviour” (Thomson, 1924, p. 118).
11 gru 2013 · This paper traces Lubbock's entomological work from its early development under Darwin to his later work on insect sensory physiology and comparative psychology. Far from being the death of his scientific career, Lubbock's entry into Parliament marked the pinnacle of his career as a scientific intellectual.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet, PC, DL, FRS, FRAI (30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, from 1865 until 1900, was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath.
ancestors, he chose to name the fictitious hero “John Lubbock” and gave him a copy of Pre-historic Times as his guide to the past. So how is it that the historic figure of John Lubbock is so little known? Since the life published by his friend Horace Gordon Hutchinson a year after his death, and a memorial collection of
W THEN Sir John Lubbock, ist Lord Avebury, died in 1913 (before the outbreak of the 1914-18 war) he was deeply mourned by thousands who knew him and revered by millions who only knew of him.
27 lis 2013 · Abstract. When Sir John Lubbock died in May 1913, his estate included a seemingly eclectic assortment of prehistoric stone tools and ethnographic artefacts displayed on the walls of his home at High Elms and hidden away in storage.
