CHAPTER VII 



SCIENCE AND MARRIAGE (1854-1856) 



(Age 20-22) 



In 1854, after going out for his training with 

 the Kent Artillery Militia at Dover, he went 

 abroad for the first time, and in Paris made the 

 acquaintance of some of the leading French men 

 of science. M. Jules Haime took him to a sitting 

 of the Institut, and M. Fizeau showed him 

 experiments, which interested him greatly, at 

 the Observatory. It was in this year that he 

 commenced his study of the habits of ants — a 

 subject to which he devoted so many days and 

 hours at a later time — and gave his first lecture 

 on them. 



He made the acquaintance of Sir Charles 

 Lyell, to whom in the spring of 1855 we find a 

 letter asking the eminent geologist to propose 

 him as a member of the Geological Society. In 

 sending a gracious consent to this request Sir 

 Charles makes reference to an interesting dis- 

 covery of some remains of a mammoth ox which 

 Lubbock had found in a gravel pit at Green 

 Street Green, near High Elms. At the same 

 time and place he had also found some cherty 



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