From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 8a (EH 88205933)
Summary:
CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.
Contributor:
Darwin 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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 9 (EH 88205934)
Summary:
Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.
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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
8 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[before 17 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645:107)
Summary:
Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 10 (EH 88205935)
Summary:
JL’s two articles in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6].
Cautions against C. K. Sprengel’s notion of bees’ being deceived by nectarless nectary.
Colour of calyces.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
15 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (Rathbone XXI.12.3: 4)
Summary:
Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.
Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.
Contributor:
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