To John Lubbock 9 February [1859]1
Moor Park, Farnham | Surrey
Feb. 9th
Dear Lubbock
Many thanks for your interesting note.— I am very glad to hear about your brother.2 What a splendid joke about Falconer.—3
I shd. much like to see the Builder, with Huxley, which shall be returned.—4
I do not think Instincts present any great difficulty, for they vary & the variations are inherited. Your cases of important organs differing much in (apparently) allied forms is a much greater & very serious difficulty & I can take refuge only in our ignorance of correlations5
I have several other letters to write & am as idle as a dog, so Farewell | Yours very truly | C. Darwin
I have despatched letter to Wollaston.—6
Footnotes
Summary
CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2411
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Moor Park
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 27 (EH 88206476)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2411,” accessed on 22 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2411.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
