52. On Caste in India.

Besides being a great man of science and a successful man of business, Sir John Evans took a most active and useful part in local affairs, for which his capacity was first rate.He was High Sheriff in 1881, chairman of Quarter Sessions, vice-chairman and afterwards chairman of the Hertfordshire County Council, and when he retired from the chairma-nship his colleagues presented him with his portrait by Mr. John Collier and a silver-gilt cup.As the West Herts Observer said, "His masterly grasp of essentials, his statesmanlike vision, his marvellous capacity for public business " of all kinds was the admiration of all who knew him.And now, mourned by a " whole county for whose welfare he worked so long and so strenuously, he goes to " his rest full of days and full of honours."The trusteeship of the British Museum afforded opportunities both for his scientific and administrative abilities.