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DCP-LETT-7057

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1871 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 89
Summary:

All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.

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DCP-LETT-7598

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.

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DCP-LETT-7904

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 67 (EH 88206511)
Summary:

CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
17 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 7 (EH 88205932)
Summary:

Praises and comments on JL’s essay on insects ["Origin of insects", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 11 (1873): 422–5].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8091

From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 260
Summary:

Asks JL to obtain copies of CD’s botanical works for his wife.

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