From John Lubbock 20 February 1868
15, Lombard Street. E.C.
20 Feb. 1868
My dear Mr. Darwin
I feel much flattered by your kind letter & will certainly let you know as soon as I can make up my great mind about Pangenesis.1
I want to hear what can be said against it.
The whole book has, I need not say, been full of interest for me. The article in the Athenæum will do no harm it overshoots the mark so absurdly.2
If you get other cases of mixed races reverting to Barbarism, please let me know.3 It would be an additional argument for me.
I have been away from home a good deal this week, & have not yet been able to find Desmarest, but hope to send you both the books this evening.4
Believe me, dear Mr. Darwin | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock
P.S. I send you the Zeits. Desmarest I cannot find for the moment.
JL
Footnotes
Bibliography
Desmarest, Anselm-Gaëtan. 1825. Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés: et description des espèces de ces animaux, qui vivent dans la mer, sur les côtes, ou dans les eaux douces de la France. Paris: F. G. Levrault.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5901
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lombard St, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 63
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5901,” accessed on 21 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5901.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
