To John Lubbock 16 August [1876]
Summary
Glad to have heard JL’s admirable speech read aloud.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 16 Aug [1876] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49644: 159) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10578 |
To John Lubbock 12 November [1881]
Summary
JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 12 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11743F |
To John Lubbock 22 October 1879
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 22 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 68 (EH 88206512) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12267 |
To John Lubbock 16 April [1881?]
Summary
Suggests that the pappus of Compositae, when lying on ground, may absorb water which may function in seed germination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 16 Apr [1881?] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 97-8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13119 |
To John Lubbock 2 August 1881
Summary
Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 2 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 100–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13269 |
To John Lubbock [18 September 1881]
Summary
JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [18 Sept 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 11 (EH 88205936) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13308 |
To John Lubbock 6 November 1881
Summary
Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.
Bonney is an "objector general".
CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 6 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 104–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13463 |
To John Lubbock 10 [September 1853]
Summary
Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 10 [Sept 1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1365 |
To John Lubbock 11 February 1882
Summary
Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.
Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 11 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13677F |
To John Lubbock 2 March 1882
Summary
Letter of introduction for Romilly Allen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 2 Mar 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 12 (EH 88205937) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13713 |
To John Lubbock [September 1854]
Summary
Sends beetle he cannot identify.
Reading J. O. Westwood [Introduction to the modern classification of insects (1839–40)] has reawakened his passion for entomology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [Sept 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 8 (EH 88206457) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1585 |
To John Lubbock [29 July 1856]
Summary
Regrets he cannot help JL; the point [unspecified] was always a trouble to CD also.
Has been to a poultry show.
Asks for the return of a lens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [29 July 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 13 (EH 88206462) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1620 |
To John Lubbock 24 April [1855]
Summary
Praise for JL’s interesting paper ["On the freshwater entomostraca of South America", Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. n.s. 3 (1854–6): 232–46].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 24 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 11 (EH 88206460) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1673 |
To John Lubbock 19 [July 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 19 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 1 (EH 88206446) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1720 |
To John Lubbock 14 [July 1855]
Summary
CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.
Thanks for Lepidoptera book.
Invites JL to dinner.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 14 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.621) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1831 |
To John Lubbock 24 April [1856]
Summary
Congratulations on JL’s marriage. Invitation to dine at Down with the Hookers, Huxleys, and T. V. Wollaston.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 24 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 2 (EH 88206448) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1859 |
To John Lubbock [14 January 1856]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [14 Jan 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 6 (EH 88206455) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1884 |
To John Lubbock [8 June 1856]
Summary
Wishes to borrow fly pincers for his son George.
Discusses T. V. Wollaston’s book on insect variation [On the variation of species (1856)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [8 June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 4 (EH 88206452) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1896 |
To John Lubbock 12 [June 1856]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 12 [June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 3 (EH 88206450) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1900 |
To John Lubbock 5 September [1856]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 5 Sept [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 9 (EH 88206458) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1949 |
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