Letter 3867
Lubbock, John to Darwin, C. R.
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Thanks CD for agreeing to review Bates's paper for Natural History Review.
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15, Lombard Street. E.C.
18 Dec 62
Dear M
Hurrah, you are a brick & I shall read your article with the greatest interest.
My lecture is to be on the ``Pfahlbauten''.
Y
C Darwin Esq
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See letter from John Lubbock, 15 December 1862, and letter to John Lubbock, 16 [December 1862]. - +
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Lubbock refers to his lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on the ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland (Lubbock 1863c): the dwellings (`Pfahlbauten') were built on stilts or piles (`Pfahl').