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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 78
Summary:

Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 157
Summary:

Writes regarding an [unspecified] election at a university. JL wonders whether William Darwin would speak to two Southampton men about it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237)
Summary:

Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.

Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1858
Source of text:
DAR 170: 21
Summary:

Thanks for queen-bee larva and pupa.

Nervous system of Coccus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 68
Summary:

Gives CD references to papers on eyes of lower animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1859
Source of text:
DAR 48: A67
Summary:

Is sorry to hear of bad health of CD and his daughter.

Discusses, with an example, the difficulty of explaining structural differences between closely allied species.

Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1859
Source of text:
DAR 170: 22
Summary:

Embryology of Diptera. Development of insects; metamorphosis. JL feels all insects go through metamorphosis but that in some of them, part takes place before birth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 23
Summary:

Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 [Feb] 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 25
Summary:

Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 26
Summary:

Grateful for CD’s approval of "Lake-habitations".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 27
Summary:

Will visit CD on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 28
Summary:

Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.

Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 29
Summary:

JL is going on a geological excursion with Joseph Prestwich and John Evans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 30
Summary:

Thanks for Orchids.

"The big book [Variation] will no doubt go on again now."

JL is writing on Somme implements ["Evidence of antiquity of man", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 244–69].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170: 31
Summary:

JL’s Swiss tour with Tyndall and Huxley.

Lake-habitations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170: 32
Summary:

CD’s health is bad.

Would like to visit CD on Friday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170: 33
Summary:

Hopes to visit tomorrow if CD is up to it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170: 34
Summary:

Thinks Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566], is very good; would appreciate an article on it from CD ["On mimetic butterflies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 219–24; Collected papers 2: 87–92].

Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170: 35
Summary:

Thanks CD for agreeing to review Bates’s paper for Natural History Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 24
Summary:

Is pleased by CD’s praise of his article.

Hugh Falconer’s is certainly interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project