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
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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 36
Summary:
Dining arrangements.
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 37
Summary:
Will come to dine on Monday unless he hears to the contrary.
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 38
Summary:
Thanks CD for his review [of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies, Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Is glad Hooker approved of his [JL’s] lecture.
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 39
Summary:
JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".
Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 40
Summary:
Has returned from trip to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Has been made President of the Ethnological Society.
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 41
Summary:
Is working on a notice for the Natural History Review [n.s. 4 (1864): 37–43] of Huxley’s lectures to working men on the origin of species.
Contributor:
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