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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
16 Apr [1881?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 97-8)
Summary:

Suggests that the pappus of Compositae, when lying on ground, may absorb water which may function in seed germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Aug 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 100–2)
Summary:

Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[18 Sept 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 11 (EH 88205936)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
6 Nov 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 104–5)
Summary:

Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.

Bonney is an "objector general".

CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
11 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.

Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 12 (EH 88205937)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for Romilly Allen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Sept [1881?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49644: 94–5)
Summary:

Discusses insect attraction to artificial flowers. CD’s experiments of 40 years ago failed, but Nägeli reported success by scenting them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project