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From E. F. Lubbock to Emma Darwin   [c. 29 November 1873]

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Wants the Anthropological Society renamed the Ethnological Society. Is trying to raise funds toward payment of the Society’s debt.

Author:  Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [c. 29 Nov 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 170: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8700

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  • … 1873 and 1874, had been a member of the Ethnological Society, as had John Lubbock . Ellen …
  • 1874, George Busk announced that the institute was still £700 in debt, and appealed to members to join a subscription to pay it in full. John Crawfurd was president of the Ethnological Society from 1861 to 1863 and 1865 to 1868 ( Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London ). John Lubbock

From C.-F. Reinwald   4 March 1873

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Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.

Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.

Author:  Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Mar 1873
Classmark:  DAR 176: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8797

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  • 1874 (Moulinié trans.  1873–4), and Barbier later produced a new translation from the second English edition (Barbier trans.  1881). Barbier was the French translator of John Lubbock’ …