ABSTRACT
By 1861, John Lubbock was sufficiently well regarded in the scientific community to be elected to the Council of the Royal Society. Together with Huxley, Busk and others, he served as an editor of the Natural History Review. During the course of the year he also published a number of scientific papers, following his well-established research themes: a review of a German book on Daphnia, 1 a study of a parasite of the humble bee 2 and another paper on the embryology of invertebrates. 3 He found time that year for two overseas visits, a climbing holiday in the Alps with Huxley and another friend, the physicist John Tyndall, 4 and a visit to Denmark with George Busk. Ellen did not go with him on either occasion. A daughter, Constance, had been born the previous year and, by the spring of 1861, Ellen was again pregnant.
