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Sir Edward Brabrook writes:—Among the many who have been honoured by the friendship of Sir Norman Lockyer and are in sorrow at his death, I count myself, as having had opportunities of being associated with him in more than one capacity. I was one of those members of the Civil Service whom he invited to join with him in a welcome to Mowatt, of the Treasury, on the occasion of his election as a member of the Athenaeum. In the year when Sir Norman presided over the British Asso ciation, I was one of the sectional presidents, and wTas nominated by him as a member of the council. I warmly sympathised with the wrishes he then entertained for the extension of the functions of the association, and when these were seen to be not realisable in the form in which he desired them, I accepted his invitation to join in the formation of the British Science Guild. Others will be better able than I to tell the story of his labours for that institution, andof the success that has attended them; but I may say a few words on another aspect of his untiring intellectual work, viz. his contributions to archaeo logy. In this respect he was an example of the interdependence that exists between the sciences, for it was the pursuit of his favourite science of astronomy that gave the direction to his studies of ancient civilisation. In the temples of Egypt and in the stone circles of our own country he found evidence of the astronomical knowledge and pur pose with which they were erected, and his own profound acquaintance with the problems they presented to him from that point of view led him to conclusions which, as in the case of fixing the date of Stonehenge, were closely verified by the evidence afterwards derived from excavations on the spot.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 105, 784 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105784a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105784a0