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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 157
Summary:

Writes regarding an [unspecified] election at a university. JL wonders whether William Darwin would speak to two Southampton men about it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
11 January 1881
Source of text:
MM/17/116, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237)
Summary:

Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.

Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
Text Online
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
From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Saunderson
Date:
16 January 1883
Source of text:
MM/21/103, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
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
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
From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
E Townshend
Date:
13 April 1887
Source of text:
MM/21/86, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
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
From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
LC Alexander
Date:
27 October 1887
Source of text:
MM/21/105, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society