From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 77
Summary:
Some good men spoke for CD’s amendment, but in vain.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Some good men spoke for CD’s amendment, but in vain.
Comments on Descent [2: 358–60] especially on CD’s view that behaviour of lower animals is evidence against JL’s interpretation [of aboriginal promiscuity]. View on communal marriage.
The land CD wants to buy probably belongs to his marriage-settlement and would thus be difficult to sell.
Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.
Expresses concern about the "coolness" between CD and [G. S.] Ffinden in regard to the Infant School.
Further arrangements for polling. Everything looks well. [Ellen Lubbock notes, "he is too sanguine – ".]