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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…

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  • In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his
  • friends, some of whom took immediate action to mediate a solution. Charles Darwin had close ties
  • paragraphs of Origin , Darwin had predicted that arevolution in natural historywould result
  • belief that these were indeed implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he
  • species such as the mammoth ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. …
  • the literature on the topic and noted that Charles Adolphe Morlot had summarised, in French, earlier
  • 1864 issue of Natural History Review , Lubbock produced a final article onCave-men’ (Lubbock
  • … (Lubbock 1865).  By 1860, Lyell had begun work on a sixth edition of Elements of geology
  • Antiquity of man (see below, ‘Textual changes made to C. Lyell 1863c’). On 6 February 1863, …
  • … , 1861, p. 489, in which he has described the results of a recent visit to Denmark, made by him in
  • Galton.   In February 1863, Lubbock received a letter from Lyell, evidently in response
  • address for the British Association meeting at Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3  By
  • about Lyells failure to support him. In April 1863, in a letter to the Athenæum , he discussed a
  • transmutation; he also wrote to Lyell telling him about the letter to the Athenæum . 9
  • 1863b, p. 213).  In May 1864, Lubbock received a letter from Falconer, who reiterated his
  • he took exception to the wording of the note on p. 11 of C. Lyell 1863c, which implied that Lubbock
  • later argue that the close similarity of certain passages in C. Lyell 1863c and Lubbock 1861 (and
  • his position and citing passages in Lubbock 1861 and C. Lyell 1863c that were almost identical. He
  • and went on to say that he intended to make a copy of his letter to show to friends. 18 In
  • letters, he thinks he was quite wrong not to allude to Sir Cs explanation of the matter’. 23
  • chiefly from the admirable digest given by my friend M. Morlot of the labours of the Danish and
  • the subject-matter, of certain passages for which M. Morlot had already supplied the principal data. …
  • Charles Lyell, Bart.  2 vols. London: John Murray. Morlot, Charles Adolphe. 1859. Etudes