138 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK OT . 



brought in a Bill (The Patents for Inventions 

 Bill) remodelling the law relating to Patents. 

 The Government also had a Bill on the same 

 subject, and eventually most of the proposals 

 made by the Society of Arts were introduced as 

 clauses into the Government Bill. 



In the autumn he went for a trip down the 

 Danube, and so to Constantinople and the Troad. 

 This, which was among the earliest in date of 

 many of its kind which he made almost annually 

 until nearly the end of his life, he has honoured 

 with notice at quite unusual length in his diary. 

 As a rule his travel notes are rather meagre, but 

 those of this particular tour are interesting and 

 detailed enough to be worth quotation at length. 

 I only wish that he had kept more such records, 

 for, as one who knew him well writes, " he must 

 have been an intensely interesting travelling 

 companion." 



Mr. Arthur Elliot says, " I met Lubbock, whom 

 I knew before, in the expedition down the 

 Danube. I was travelling with Herschell and 

 two other young barristers, and at Pesth we found 

 Lubbock, the Grant Duffs, W. R. Greg, Miss 

 Wilson, Masurus Pasha (the ambassador to 

 London), his son and daughter, Miss Osborne, 

 daughter of Bernal Osborne, now Lady Blake, 

 and some lively Irish young lady cousins of hers. 

 We had a very lively party all the way to Con- 

 stantinople." 



The account which the diary gives of the 

 expedition runs : 



This autumn I have been with the Gregs and Grant- 

 Duffs to Constantinople and Asia Minor. Just before 



