Lubbock, John, Sir (1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet), 30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913 (English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath)

Scope and Contents Letters summarised as: Slow progress of Australians & negros - egro, miocene man may have been all but stationary; Lake Prasias & Takinor - Nile Valley elevations; Horner's Egyptian; Lubbock presscutting in Reader, answer to Sharpe's objection to Horner's Nile mud Chronometer, Statue of Rameses; Lubbock, reference in Antiquity of Man to his paper on Danish mounds and notes for my answer [includes Lyell's own notes - finished by Buckley, on Antiquity of Man, and his defence on...

Scope and Contents Five copy letters, including draft responses, to Lubbock, and one copy of Lubbock's letter to Lyell. Summarised as 'Nile deposits - Age of Egyptian buildings - & Lubbock's letter & Extract from 2nd letter March 3rd. Both relate to Horner's work on the Statue of Rameses. Copy letter of 25 May 1865 is Lyell's response to Lubbock's accusation of using his research [see also Coll-203/1/172] and defending his actions. Copy letter of 30 May 1865 documents the transition of Lyell's notes...

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Copy letters - with drafted sections - summarised as 'Lyell to Murray on Geikie's Art[icle] in July Quart[erly] 1 August 1868, and, one letter drafted by Lyell, on the review of Lubbock's article in the Athenaeum accusing Lyell of plagiarism.