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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 76
Summary:

The Census Bill is down on the paper for tomorrow; will CD restate how he wants to put the question [on cousin marriages]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 20
Summary:

Brought forward the "cousin question" in the House; read most of CD’s letter to the House.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 77
Summary:

Some good men spoke for CD’s amendment, but in vain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 175–6
Summary:

Comments on Descent [2: 358–60] especially on CD’s view that behaviour of lower animals is evidence against JL’s interpretation [of aboriginal promiscuity]. View on communal marriage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 8b (EH 88205933)
Summary:

The land CD wants to buy probably belongs to his marriage-settlement and would thus be difficult to sell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 198: 127
Summary:

Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 198: 128
Summary:

Expresses concern about the "coolness" between CD and [G. S.] Ffinden in regard to the Infant School.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster
Date:
[7 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C52–3
Summary:

Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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