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DCP-LETT-9618

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9968

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 May [1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49644: 79–80)
Summary:

Arrangements to meet a Duke [unidentified] at High Elms [Lubbock residence].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10578

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
16 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49644: 159)
Summary:

Glad to have heard JL’s admirable speech read aloud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13119

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
16 Apr [1881?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 97-8)
Summary:

Suggests that the pappus of Compositae, when lying on ground, may absorb water which may function in seed germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13269

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Aug 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 100–2)
Summary:

Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9622

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Sept [1881?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49644: 94–5)
Summary:

Discusses insect attraction to artificial flowers. CD’s experiments of 40 years ago failed, but Nägeli reported success by scenting them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
6 Nov 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 104–5)
Summary:

Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.

Bonney is an "objector general".

CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-86-02-10a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Sir John Lubbock
Date:
10 February 1886
Source of text:
British Library, London, Sherborn Autographs, VII - Science, additional manuscripts 42581, f. 177
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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