To John Lubbock 30 [March? 1858]1
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Dear Lubbock
I have told Mr Busk that I have returned the paper to you.2 I shall not be easy till you send me briefest scrap to say that you have received it from me; for it would be so dreadful if it were lost.— Will you send it back to Linnean Socy.—
What an admirable & philosophical paper it is! I have sent your remark to Mr Busk to be given to Huxley.—3 I have, also, sent some criticisms to Busk, to be communicated to H. if he concurs with my opinion; which is to condense the discussion versus Owen’s theory.4
I do not like the introduction & comparison with man so remote in scale of nature.5 Still less do I like sentence about the maidens having epidermic Babies.—very well for a Review.—6 It is a grand paper—how very curious the comparison with vertebrates, & how satisfactory the homologies of all Articulata.—7
Yours most truly | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1856–7. Lectures on general natural history. Medical Times & Gazette n.s. 12: 429–32, 481–4, 507–11, 563–7, 618–23; 13: 27–30, 131–4, 157–60, 278–81, 383–6, 462–3, 537–8, 586–8, 635–9; 14: 133–5, 181–3, 255-7, 353–5, 505–8, 638–40; 15: 159–62, 186–9, 238–41, 467-71.
Summary
Comments and criticisms on JL’s paper [possibly: "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2397
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 23 (EH 88206472)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2397,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2397.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7