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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:
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:
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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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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
25 May [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 32 (EH 88206481)
Summary:

Local affairs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
29 [May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40 (EH 88206484)
Summary:

Local affairs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[4 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 38 (EH 88206482)
Summary:

Birth of JL’s child.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
20 July [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40a (EH 88206447)
Summary:

Is puzzled what to think about the [Natural History] Review. Doubts that it is wise that JL and Huxley should give up time to it: "if it would stop your doing original work you ought not, even pro bono publico, undertake the new work".

Reports on Henrietta’s health.

The Quarterly Review [108 (1860): 255–64] quizzes CD "capitally" and he read it with thorough enjoyment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[18 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 39 (EH 88206483)
Summary:

Drawing up paper on Drosera but will not publish till results are tested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
28 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40b (EH 88206449)
Summary:

Praise for a paper on the Entomostraca by Lubbock (Lubbock 1862). Thanks for the compliment paid to the Origin and for his general comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[before 5 Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40c (EH 88206451)
Summary:

Comments on JL’s paper ["Notes on the generative organs, and on the formation of the egg in the Annulosa", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 11 (1860–2): 117–24].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[25 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 41 (EH 88206485)
Summary:

Discusses the possibility of a banking job for William [Darwin]; wishes to meet JL to discuss the prospects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project