To John Lubbock 23 September [1856]1
Downe
Sept. 23d.
Dear Lubbock
As I know you are interested in Owen’s Parthenogenesis2 et id genus omne, I send you the enclosed Review by Quatrefages:3 the 1st half seems to me very dull, but the second half very good. & very true.
I, also, enclose some of Huxley’s Lectures.—4
I hope Mrs. Lubbock is pretty well again; some time ago I heard but an indifferent account of her.—5
What wonderfully grand doings you had at the marriage;—I shd. think you can hardly be all rested yet. We made Etty give us a very full account of all she saw.—6
Your very sincerely | C. Darwin
P.S. I had almost forgotten what made me think chiefly of writing, viz a letter from Dana,7 whom I had told of your marriage, in which he says “I was, also pleased to hear of Mr Lubbocks happiness. A long life to them full of joys. Please thank him from me for the pamphlets, which he has sent me. He is doing excellent work among the Entomostraca, & dear little things they are”.—8
Please respeak for me to have any Bantam which shd. chance to die.9
Footnotes
Bibliography
Burke’s peerage: A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s peerage and baronetage. 1st– edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1826–.
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.
Lubbock, John. 1855. On the freshwater Entomostraca of South America. [Read 7 May 1855.] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London n.s. 3: 232–40.
Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de. 1855–6. Physiologie comparée. Les métamorphoses. Revue des deux Mondes 10 (1855): 90–116, 275–314; 3 (1856): 496– 519, 859-83; 4 (1856): 55–82.
Summary
Sends review by Quatrefages [de Bréau] of Owen’s Parthenogenesis [1849].
J. D. Dana’s congratulations on JL’s marriage.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1960
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 283: 12 (EH 88206461)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1960,” accessed on 4 October 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1960.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
