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DCP-LETT-5901

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 170: 63
Summary:

Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6252

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 64
Summary:

JL’s Royal Institution lectures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6433

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 59
Summary:

Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6443

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 65
Summary:

Would like to borrow CD’s carriage on polling day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6449

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 66
Summary:

Arrangements for polling.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6478

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 68
Summary:

JL’s failure to be elected to Parliament.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6494

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 170: 69
Summary:

Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6519

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 5 Aug 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 70
Summary:

Visiting arrangements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6607

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 170: 71
Summary:

Down School funds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6613

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 72
Summary:

Down School funds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6813

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 73
Summary:

Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6838

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 74
Summary:

Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6854

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 82: 84–5
Summary:

On the antennae of Labidocera.

Size of sexes in Entomostraca.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7024

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 75
Summary:

Is glad CD likes the new edition [of Prehistoric times].

Has been lecturing in Scotland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001657

From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
LC Alexander
Date:
26 January 1869
Source of text:
MM/21/102, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel11441

From:
John Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.354
Summary:

Thanks for his letter. Sorry to hear that JH's name is not on the Register, but can they add his name to JL's Committee? His father is very ill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11443

From:
John Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.356
Summary:

Has seen JH's nephew and will be pleased to sign his certificate. His instinct and reason are against dating Stonehenge as post-Roman.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11444

From:
John Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.357
Summary:

Thanks for his letter. Agrees that the stones of Stonehenge must have come from the neighborhood. The chips in the barrows must have come from the hewn stones of Stonehenge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP3761

From:
John Lubbock
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 August 1866
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley Collection, 1L/22.65
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6456

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 67
Summary:

Further arrangements for polling. Everything looks well. [Ellen Lubbock notes, "he is too sanguine – ".]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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