From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
22 Jan 1870?
Source of text:
MSL 5 / 126, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
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Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’
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CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.
CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.
Thinks "mum" comes from shutting the mouth repeatedly as a sign of wanting to eat.