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DCP-LETT-5868

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 62
Summary:

Discusses [Fritz?] Müller’s confusion about ova and pseudova; JL’s Daphnia paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100; see 1979] first demonstrated their structural identity.

Points out a misleading statement in Variation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
15 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Hutchinson 1914, 1: 48
Summary:

Returns Anthropological Review.

Asks to borrow Desmarest on Crustacea [Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825)].

Has been reading JL’s address to the Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d. ser. 5 (1865–7): cxiii–cxxxi].

Would like to hear JL’s conclusion for or against Pangenesis.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5901

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 170: 63
Summary:

Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.

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