To John Lubbock 8 April [1874]
Summary
Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8283 |
To John Lubbock 23 February 1874
Summary
CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 8a (EH 88205933) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9310 |
To John Lubbock 3 April 1874
Summary
Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 9 (EH 88205934) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9386 |
To John Lubbock [before 17 September 1874]
Summary
Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [before 17 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645:107) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9618 |
To John Lubbock 26 September [1874]
Summary
JL’s two articles in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6].
Cautions against C. K. Sprengel’s notion of bees’ being deceived by nectarless nectary.
Colour of calyces.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 26 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 10 (EH 88205935) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9659 |
To John Lubbock 15 December [1874]
Summary
Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.
Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 15 Dec [1874] |
| Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (Rathbone XXI.12.3: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9760 |
To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874]
Summary
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C52–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9384 |
| Lubbock, John | |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Lubbock, John | |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
