62 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 



CH. 



views with reference to the probability of the 

 existence of Man in Miocene times. He was 

 also of opinion that the ancestors of the human 

 race at that period would have differed so much 

 that they could hardly be regarded as belonging 

 to the same species. 



53 Harley Street, 

 February 20, 1863. 



Dear Lubbock — In reference to p. 399, it strikes me 

 that if there had been some representative of the family 

 to which man now belongs, Satirus sapiens, in the 

 Miocene period, and he had by transmutation been 

 superseded by Homo sapiens, there would have been so 

 much progress and instrument making in the older 

 Pliocene epoch that we should have found fossil ships, 

 etc., in the Subapennine strata. See p. 379 as to what 

 progress or improvement reason in millions of years must 

 lead to. 



Please let me have the benefit of errata which you 

 may have seen. I know it is tiresome to write them out, 

 but a great boon to the author. 



I have struck out Gal ton and Prestwich at p. 11, who 

 will be surprised to learn that they were in Denmark. 



Max Miiller, I am happy to find, has nothing to object 

 to, whether as to facts or opinions, in what I say on 

 languages in ch. xxiii., and he even says that Darwin's 

 theory of " Natural Selection and the struggle for life 

 was wanted to unlock the mysteries of language." 



Fortunately Miiller is a layman, and therefore need 

 not be expelled the University at the instance of three 

 canons of Christ Church for declaring what he believes 

 to be the truth. — Ever truly yours, Chas. Lyell. 



J. Lubbock, Esq. 



In this same year he was invited on behalf 

 of the Liberal Committee to stand for the City. 

 At that time the Liberals had a large majority, 

 there would probably have been no opposition, 

 and his election would have been certain. To 

 his great regret Sir J. W. Lubbock declined to 



