CHAPTER IX 



SCIENCE, AND THOUGHTS OF PARLIAMENT 



(1861-1864) 



(Age 27-30) 



In 1861 it is probable that the growing increase 

 in the young family made the spacious accom- 

 modation of High Elms scarcely adequate to 

 all the demands on it, and Mr. and Mrs. Lubbock, 

 with their children, migrated to a house in Chisle- 

 hurst, which they re-named Lamas, after the 

 ancestral place of the family in Norfolk. He 

 had been elected a member of the Royal Society 

 in 1858, at an extraordinarily early age, and 

 this year the Society did him the honour of 

 appointing him to serve on its Council. It is 

 not always remembered how very young he was 

 when he had already made a decided mark and 

 acquired a position of distinction in science. 



I think it is also to this year that we have to 

 refer an amusing story connected with the loss 

 — merely temporary — of a small handbag which 

 he carried daily with him to London, when he 

 went up to business. He became interested, 

 during the summer, in the study of a curious 

 parasite Sphaeruleria Bombi, of the Humble Bee, 



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