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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
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