RECORD: Lubbock, John. 02.01.1896. Letter to Francis Darwin. CUL-DAR107.30. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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High Elms

2 Jan 96

My Dear Frank

Thanks for the letter.

I have always been proud of having born my part in the great Oxford debate, - if you are preparing another edition I think you might mention it.

I took the point in

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reply to Wilberforce & Fitzroy that the embryology of the individual in many cases represents "the past history of the species

I am

Yours very sincerely,

John Lubbock


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