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DCP-LETT-2149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[22 Nov 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 22 (EH 88206471)
Summary:

Huxley and William Sharpey praise JL’s paper [? on Daphnia, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100] at Philosophical Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2397

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
30 [Mar? 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 23 (EH 88206472)
Summary:

Comments and criticisms on JL’s paper [possibly: "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2390

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Aug–Sept 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 24 (EH 88206473)
Summary:

Variations in the structure of Pelargonium flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 25 (EH 88206474)
Summary:

Praise for abstract of JL’s paper on insects ["On the ova and pseudova of insects", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 9 (1857–9): 574–83].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2408

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[6 Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 26 (EH 88206475)
Summary:

JL’s brother’s accident.

Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2411

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
9 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 27 (EH 88206476)
Summary:

CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
8 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478)
Summary:

Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2434

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
16 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 28 (EH 88206477)
Summary:

Wants JL’s opinion on paper by L. J. M. Dufour ["Études anatomiques sur les insectes diptères de la famille des pupipares", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 1345–55].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2419

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
21 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 30 (EH 88206479)
Summary:

Development of aphids; apparent absence of vermiform stage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2527

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[19 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 16 (EH 88206465)
Summary:

Has told John Murray to send copy of the Origin. There are "many valid and weighty arguments against my notions".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2532

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[22 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 17 (EH 88206466)
Summary:

CD’s former admiration for Paley’s Natural theology [1802].

Cares not for reviews [of Origin] but for opinions of men like Lubbock, Huxley, Hooker, Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2584

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 15 (EH 88206464)
Summary:

Is preparing a reprint of Origin. Asks JL’s opinion on the book’s merits; values his judgment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2586

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
17 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 31 (EH 88206480)
Summary:

Local affairs and finances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2815

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
25 May [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 32 (EH 88206481)
Summary:

Local affairs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2817

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
29 [May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40 (EH 88206484)
Summary:

Local affairs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2859

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[4 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 38 (EH 88206482)
Summary:

Birth of JL’s child.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2874

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
20 July [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40a (EH 88206447)
Summary:

Is puzzled what to think about the [Natural History] Review. Doubts that it is wise that JL and Huxley should give up time to it: "if it would stop your doing original work you ought not, even pro bono publico, undertake the new work".

Reports on Henrietta’s health.

The Quarterly Review [108 (1860): 255–64] quizzes CD "capitally" and he read it with thorough enjoyment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2988

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[18 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 39 (EH 88206483)
Summary:

Drawing up paper on Drosera but will not publish till results are tested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3001

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
28 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40b (EH 88206449)
Summary:

Praise for a paper on the Entomostraca by Lubbock (Lubbock 1862). Thanks for the compliment paid to the Origin and for his general comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3038

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[before 5 Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40c (EH 88206451)
Summary:

Comments on JL’s paper ["Notes on the generative organs, and on the formation of the egg in the Annulosa", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 11 (1860–2): 117–24].

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