48 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK CH . 



Bankers. It was adopted by them, and Lubbock 

 drew up the rules, which have been in operation 

 ever since. They were sent down by each Bank 

 to their Country Correspondents, and met with 

 general approval. 



The following letter from Charles Darwin is 

 worthy of quotation, as showing both how highly 

 the famous evolutionist already appreciated the 

 works and gifts of Lubbock, who was still, it 

 is to be remembered, only in his twenty-sixth 

 year, and also as indicating the astonishment, 

 which we must all share, that with such various 

 calls on his time he was able to accomplish so 

 much. 



Down, Feb. 15, 1860. 



My dear Lubbock — Many thanks for Anthropo- 

 logical Review returned. Thanks also about buds and 

 ovary. I wish I had remembered your discussion. I 

 have now alluded to it in 2nd Edition. Taking the whole 

 sense of Miiller's pages, especially one passage further on, 

 I still think he meant to say that buds and germs were 

 essentially the same, but it is far more doubtful than I 

 supposed. I have been reading your address to Ent. 

 Soc. ; and the number of first rate papers to which you 

 refer is quite appalling. How do you find time to search 

 up so much matter ? I have nothing else to do, and do 

 not hear of half so many papers. It is very unfair of 

 you ! Do you take in the Zeitschaft fur Wissen. Zoolog. ; 

 if so, can you lend me vol. xvii. p. 1, with Landois' 

 " On Noises of Insects " ? 



Also can you lend me Desmarest on " Crustacea," — a 

 thick pinkish volume, if you have it. I want to look 

 at sexual differences. I have been looking at your 

 papers and figures in March and May, and have been 

 fairly astonished (for I had nearly forgotten) at the 

 wonderful structure of the geniculated antenna of male ; 

 but I wish you had figured both antennae, i.e. the pair, 

 in their proper position : I should have liked to have 

 given a copy in a wood cut. 



