To John Lubbock [1871 or later]
Summary
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [1871 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7057 |
To John Lubbock 17 November 1871
Summary
Praises and comments on JL’s essay on insects ["Origin of insects", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 11 (1873): 422–5].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 7 (EH 88205932) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8072 |
To John Lubbock 12 August [1871]
Summary
CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 67 (EH 88206511) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904 |
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- … To John Lubbock 12 August [1871] …
- … Haredene, Albury Surrey 12 Aug [1871] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … 1871. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidæ (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Lubbock, John. …
From Nevil Maskelyne to John Lubbock 3 December [1871]
Summary
Asks JL to obtain copies of CD’s botanical works for his wife.
| Author: | Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8091 |
From John Lubbock 18 March [1871]
Summary
Comments on Descent [2: 358–60] especially on CD’s view that behaviour of lower animals is evidence against JL’s interpretation [of aboriginal promiscuity]. View on communal marriage.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 175–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7598 |
From Anton Dohrn 12 February 1874
Summary
Birthday greetings.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9285 |
To J. J. Weir 19 October 1871
Summary
"Like you I have often wondered at the different food of the old and young, as with graminivorous birds feeding their young with insects."
Recommends forthcoming book by John Lubbock [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 328 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8018 |
From E. F. Lubbock [18 November 1870]
Summary
John Lubbock has nearly finished his Thysanura book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Nov 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7789 |
To Hubert Airy 10 [December] 1871
Summary
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
| Date: | 10 [Dec] 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8060 |
To Nevil Story-Maskelyne 6 December 1871
Summary
Sends a copy of Orchids for his wife, T. M. Story-Maskelyne, and a few other items she may wish to have.
Climbing Plants may be purchased at Williams and Norgate; he has no clean copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 88953/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8098F |
From J. D. Hooker 19 October 1875
Summary
Gives directions for growing plants he has sent and corrects CD’s taxonomy.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 40–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10205 |
From Nevil Maskelyne 8 December 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for papers he sent his wife. They will help her pass her time as an invalid.
| Author: | Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 261 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8100 |
From A. C. Ramsay 3 January 1872
Summary
Further details and measurements of the stones in the courtyard pavement for CD’s investigation of earthworm action.
| Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8141 |
From T. H. Farrer 6 October 1880
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions [in 12732] regarding the Abinger Hall excavations.
Torbitt.
Family news.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12739 |
From F. A. Hanbury 4 September 1871
Summary
Thanks for £5 for the Voysey fund.
| Author: | Francis Alfred Hanbury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7923 |
Lubbock, John. 1871a. On the development of relationships. [Read 14 February 1871.] The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1 (1872): 1–29.
Lubbock, John. 1871b. On the origin of insects. [Read 2 November 1871.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 11 (1873): 422–5.
From Edward Burnett Tylor 8 September 1869
Summary
Wishes to borrow a paper by R. G. Haliburton on superstitions connected with sneezing [see 5635].
| Author: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6883 |
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| bibliography | (3) |
| people | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Hanbury, F. A. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Hordern, E. F. | (2) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Lubbock, E. F. | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Morgan, L. H. | (1) |
| Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
| Siebold, C. T. E. von | (1) |
| Story, Nevil | (2) |
| Story-Maskelyne, Nevil | (2) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Thomasson, J. P. | (1) |
| Tylor, E. B. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Westropp, H. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Lubbock, John | (5) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
| Lubbock, John | (7) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Innes, J. B. | (3) |
