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:
[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 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, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 80: 166–7
Summary:
Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
20 June 1872
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers 1872 (335) XLVII.527, pp. 41–9.
Summary:
Encloses a memorial concerning the Botanical Gardens at Kew signed by ‘some of our most eminent scientific men’ (including CD).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Lubbock
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 November [1872]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 256
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 78
Summary:
Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Leo Errera
Date:
27 January 1878
Source of text:
MM/21/54, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 157
Summary:
Writes regarding an [unspecified] election at a university. JL wonders whether William Darwin would speak to two Southampton men about it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
11 January 1881
Source of text:
MM/17/116, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237)
Summary:
Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.
Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Saunderson
Date:
16 January 1883
Source of text:
MM/21/103, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
E Townshend
Date:
13 April 1887
Source of text:
MM/21/86, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society