Letter 5138
Lubbock, John to Darwin, C. R.
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Returns [Fritz?] Müller's work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.
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High Elms
1 July
My dear M
I return you Muller with many thanks. I wish I had read it before delivering my lecture on metamorphoses.
On some points he seems to me to contradict himself, & in places his meaning is obscure, but it is certainly a remarkable memoir.
Hoping you continue to improve I remain | Yours affect | John Lubbock
C Darwin Esq
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The year is established by the reference to Lubbock 1866a (see n. 3, below). - +
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Lubbock refers to Fritz Müller's paper `On the metamorphoses of the prawns' (F. Müller 1864a). For CD's interest in the paper, see the letter to Fritz Müller, 11 January 1866 and n. 8. - +
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Lubbock's lecture, `On the metamorphoses of insects', was given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 9 March 1866 (Lubbock 1866a). A lightly annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection--CUL. See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Lubbock, 23 [February 1863] and n. 5.