WCP3761

Letter (WCP3761.3673)

[1]1

15, Lombard Street, E. C.

2 Aug. / [18]66

My dear Huxley

Thanks for your kind letter.2 I have heard nothing to alter my opinion as to the relative merits of the rival terms, & think it unfortunate that the British Association should alter a name which has been so long in use.3

However I don't suppose I [2] shall enjoy my week at Nottingham any the less.

Wallace is a first rate man & you may depend on it I shall do nothing to disturb the harmony of his proceedings.4 I will even do all I can to check Burk's5 irrepressible pugnacity.

I suppose however you will not finally settle about the [3] subsection till you are sure of having too many papers for the section alone to deal with last year you know Section D6 had very few papers, & you make shorter work with them than most Presidents.

Are your friends H. & B.7 coming? Will they bring a supply of communication; & if so will they read them in a subsection?

[4] Nelly8 & I expect you to make Biology section D very interest[ing] & are much looking forward to your performances.

Yours very sincerely | John Lubbock [signature]

T. H. Huxley Esq.

P.S. Mind you keep yourself diseng[aged][?]9 for the Red Suns.10

1
Page 1 is numbered 65 by the repository. Every second subsequent page has a consecutive handwritten number written in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
2
Letter not found.
3
See note 4.
4
ARW was President of the Department of Anthropology, Section D, Biology, at the meeting of the BA in Nottingham in August 1866. (1867. Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Nottingham Meeting. Report of the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Nottingham in August 1866. London; John Murray. [p. xxxi]). Previously Section D had been termed "Botany and Zoology, including Physiology." 1866. Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Birmingham Meeting. Report of the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Birmingham in September 1865. London: John Murray. [p. xxxi].
5
Burk, J. Lardner. (fl. 1857-1866) Irish? LL. D. Member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1867. List of Members. Report of the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Nottingham in August 1866. London; John Murray. [p. 12].
6
See note 4.
7
"H. & B." have not been identified.
8
Lubbock (née Horden), Ellen ("Nelly") Francis (1835-1879). Daughter of a clergyman and first wife of John Lubbock (from 1856-1879).
9
End of word cut off at edge of page.
10
Possibly a reference to the Meteorology Section's Report: Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1865-66.

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Transcribed by Benny, Ruth [2014-10-28] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2019-12-20]

Please cite as “WCP3761,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3761