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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-13308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[18 Sept 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 11 (EH 88205936)
Summary:

JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.

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

DCP-LETT-11743F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13677F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
11 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.

Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 12 (EH 88205937)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for Romilly Allen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP6539

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Lubbock
Date:
8 December 1882
Source of text:
Sotheby's (auction)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

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

JHC993

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir John Lubbock
Date:
7 March 1886
Source of text:
JDH/2/17 f.85-86, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online

WCP3365

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Lubbock
Date:
12 September 1887
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 49678 C f. 102
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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