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DCP-LETT-4077

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 39
Summary:

JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".

Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4291

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 40
Summary:

Has returned from trip to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

Has been made President of the Ethnological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4320

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 41
Summary:

Is working on a notice for the Natural History Review [n.s. 4 (1864): 37–43] of Huxley’s lectures to working men on the origin of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4322

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 42
Summary:

Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4331

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 43
Summary:

Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4384

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 44
Summary:

JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".

Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4575

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 46
Summary:

Has obtained microscopes for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4606

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 47
Summary:

Wishes to borrow volumes 1 and 3 of Narrative [vol. 1 by Capt. P. P. King, vol. 3 by CD].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4653

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 48
Summary:

Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4719

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 49
Summary:

Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4791

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 and 26 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 170: 50
Summary:

JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Apologises for failure to post letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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

DCP-LETT-4860

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 45
Summary:

Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence 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

DCP-LETT-5138

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 52
Summary:

Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence 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-5179

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1866
Source of text:
DAR 170: 53
Summary:

Returns Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5252

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 51
Summary:

Anxious to make acquaintance of Ernst Haeckel [who was staying with CD].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5366

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 170: 54
Summary:

JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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