From John Lubbock 18 December 1862
15, Lombard Street. E.C.
18 Dec 62
Dear Mr. Darwin
Hurrah, you are a brick & I shall read your article with the greatest interest.1
My lecture is to be on the “Pfahlbauten”.2
Yrs. affec | John Lubbock
C Darwin Esqr
Footnotes
Lubbock refers to his lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on the ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland (Lubbock 1863c): the dwellings (‘Pfahlbauten’) were built on stilts or piles (‘Pfahl’).
Summary
Thanks CD for agreeing to review Bates’s paper for Natural History Review.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3867
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lombard St, 15
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 35
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3867,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3867.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
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