AUTOGRAPH CLOSE of a LETTER SIGNED by the English Polymath, Scientist and Banker JOHN LUBBOCK, 1ST BARON AVEBURY.

19th Century. . Good. - Over 10 words penned as the close on 3-3/8 inch high by 4-3/8 inch wide cream paper clipped from the bottom of a letter. Sir John Lubbock writes "him as one of our candidates. / Believe me [ ] Yours very sincerely / John Lubbock". Once folded, the unevenly clipped slip of paper is mounted onto heavier 3-5/8 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide cream paper clipped from an autograph album. Slightly soiled with minor foxing to the verso of the mount. Good. The polymath banker, politician, philanthropist, and scientist John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834-1913) made significant contributions in the fields of archaeology, ethnography, and biology while working as a banker in his family's company. Lubbock coined the words "Palaeolithic" and "Neolithic" to describe the Old and New Stone Ages and helped establish Archaeology as a scientific discipline. Lubbock was influential in debates on the theory of evolution. As a politician, he introduced the first law for the protection of the United Kingdom's archaeological and architectural heritage.…