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DCP-LETT-1884

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[14 Jan 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 6 (EH 88206455)
Summary:

Inquires about a Mr Smith, who might prove helpful "in the domestic bird line".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2028

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Mar? 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 10 (EH 88206459)
Summary:

JL is studying Cynipidae. CD sends galls for his examination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1859

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
24 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 2 (EH 88206448)
Summary:

Congratulations on JL’s marriage. Invitation to dine at Down with the Hookers, Huxleys, and T. V. Wollaston.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[8 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 4 (EH 88206452)
Summary:

Wishes to borrow fly pincers for his son George.

Discusses T. V. Wollaston’s book on insect variation [On the variation of species (1856)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1900

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 [June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 3 (EH 88206450)
Summary:

Smallpox in the village. Death of Joseph Parslow’s son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1620

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[29 July 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 13 (EH 88206462)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot help JL; the point [unspecified] was always a trouble to CD also.

Has been to a poultry show.

Asks for the return of a lens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1949

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
5 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 9 (EH 88206458)
Summary:

Quotes passage from [Frédéric?] Gerard on distribution of certain Lepidoptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1960

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 283: 12 (EH 88206461)
Summary:

Sends review by Quatrefages [de Bréau] of Owen’s Parthenogenesis [1849].

J. D. Dana’s congratulations on JL’s marriage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1979

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
27 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 14 (EH 88206463)
Summary:

Comments on JL’s paper on Daphnia, ["An account of methods of reproduction in Daphnia and of the structure of the ephippium", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1980

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1 Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 5 (EH 88206454)
Summary:

Discusses arthropod structure and the nature of the corium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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