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From John Lubbock   20 December 1864

Chiselhurst

20 Dec 64

My dear Mr. Darwin

You will of course have seen in the Presidents Address the manner in which he alludes to the “Origin of Species”.1

I am much vexed about it, but would like to know your feeling on the subject if it would not bore you to write.2

Believe me always | Yours affec | John Lubbock

C Darwin Esq

Footnotes

1
Lubbock refers to Edward Sabine’s address, delivered at the meeting of the Royal Society of London on 30 November 1864. The address described the basis on which CD had been awarded the Copley Medal, and included some controversial remarks on Origin. Edited versions of the address appeared in the Reader, 3 December 1864, pp. 708–9, and the Athenæum, 3 December 1864, p. 748. See letter from Hugh Falconer, 2 December 1864 and n. 3. For a discussion of the controversy surrounding Sabine’s address, see Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix IV.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Summary

Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-4719
From
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Chislehurst
Source of text
DAR 170: 49
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4719,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4719.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12

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