To John Lubbock 8 March [1859]
Summary
Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 8 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2426 |
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- … manual, and directory 1859 and 1860. John William Lubbock , John Lubbock’s father was …
- … John Lubbock , 16 [March 1859] and 21 [March 1859] . Ellen Frances Lubbock . The Mid-Kent Railway Company had financed a short railway extension from Beckenham to Lewisham, along what was known as the Farnborough extension. The line had opened for business in 1857, but Farnborough never became a station on it. In 1859, there was a movement to finance a further extension from the Crystal Palace station, near Penge, to Norwood, which may have included Farnborough. The line was not constructed due to financial disagreement with the Brighton Railway Company in 1860. …