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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[before 13 Feb 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 70
Summary:
Asks whether JL would be prepared to sign a petition on behalf of Miss Eliza Meteyard who is seeking a civil list pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 263: 66 (EH 88206510)
Summary:
Sexual differences in Labidocera darwinii, in Entomostraca, and Myriapoda.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lubbock
Date:
[26 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.355 & 24.112
Summary:
Cannot make up his mind to support either one or other of the two great political divisions at the moment.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
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