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DCP-LETT-2426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
8 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478)
Summary:

Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2433

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

DCP-LETT-2434

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
16 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 28 (EH 88206477)
Summary:

Wants JL’s opinion on paper by L. J. M. Dufour ["Études anatomiques sur les insectes diptères de la famille des pupipares", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 1345–55].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
11 Aug [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 21 (EH 88206470)
Summary:

Asks JL not to call as he has a "very old friend" [J. S. Henslow] coming to visit him.

Yesterday visited poultry show at Crystal Palace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2527

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[19 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 16 (EH 88206465)
Summary:

Has told John Murray to send copy of the Origin. There are "many valid and weighty arguments against my notions".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2532

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[22 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 17 (EH 88206466)
Summary:

CD’s former admiration for Paley’s Natural theology [1802].

Cares not for reviews [of Origin] but for opinions of men like Lubbock, Huxley, Hooker, Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2584

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 15 (EH 88206464)
Summary:

Is preparing a reprint of Origin. Asks JL’s opinion on the book’s merits; values his judgment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2586

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
17 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 31 (EH 88206480)
Summary:

Local affairs and finances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2815

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

DCP-LETT-2817

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

DCP-LETT-2859

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

DCP-LETT-2874

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

DCP-LETT-2988

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

DCP-LETT-3001

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

DCP-LETT-3038

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

DCP-LETT-3158

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

DCP-LETT-3172

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
1 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 42 (EH 88206486)
Summary:

William Darwin can go to Southampton any time should the banking proposition come to anything. CD is sure he would work hard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
6 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 3 (EH 88205928)
Summary:

Arrangements for a meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3179

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[8 June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 2 (EH 88205927)
Summary:

Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3195

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
24 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40d (EH 88206453)
Summary:

There have been delays, but William Darwin’s banking position is nearly settled.

Is going to Torquay, where he will write up his work on orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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