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DCP-LETT-8072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
17 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 7 (EH 88205932)
Summary:

Praises and comments on JL’s essay on insects ["Origin of insects", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 11 (1873): 422–5].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8128

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[after 21 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 137–8
Summary:

Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 9 (EH 88205934)
Summary:

Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9659

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 10 (EH 88205935)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9920

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
8 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 129
Summary:

Writes regarding local difficulties concerning Down School and the setting up of a reading-room; his strained relationship with G. S. ffinden following some misunderstanding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8091

From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 260
Summary:

Asks JL to obtain copies of CD’s botanical works for his wife.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9384

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster
Date:
[7 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C52–3
Summary:

Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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