From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
25 May [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 32 (EH 88206481)
Summary:
Local affairs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Local affairs.
Local affairs.
Birth of JL’s child.
Is puzzled what to think about the [Natural History] Review. Doubts that it is wise that JL and Huxley should give up time to it: "if it would stop your doing original work you ought not, even pro bono publico, undertake the new work".
Reports on Henrietta’s health.
The Quarterly Review [108 (1860): 255–64] quizzes CD "capitally" and he read it with thorough enjoyment.
Drawing up paper on Drosera but will not publish till results are tested.
Praise for a paper on the Entomostraca by Lubbock (Lubbock 1862). Thanks for the compliment paid to the Origin and for his general comments.