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DCP-LETT-7299

From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 238
Summary:

Sends last chapter of his book in press [Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family vol. 17 in Smithsonian contributions to knowledge (1871)], which supports CD on man.

Ethnology must study the ages of barbarism as the formative portions of man’s physical and mental history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7812

From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 239
Summary:

Will call tomorrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7891

From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 240
Summary:

John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7891F

From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 240/1
Summary:

Sends abstract of a paper on hybridity read by Edward Moore to a natural history club in Rochester, NY. Argues the necessity of hybridity on CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11020

From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 241
Summary:

Criticises Herbert Spencer’s Principles of sociology, particularly for its treatment of the family, for its superficiality, and for its dependence on J. F. McLennan’s views on exogamy. Americans are coming to see Spencer’s ideas as too broad.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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