From John Lubbock 4 August 1866
Summary
Returns Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5179 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Lubbock 4 August 1866 …
- … DAR 170: 53 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury unstated 4 Aug 1866 Charles …
- … See letter to John Lubbock, 2 August [1866] . …
- … See letter to John Lubbock, 2 August [1866] and n. 3. …
- … to ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’ . See letter to John Lubbock, 2 August [1866] . …
- … thought you said I might keep it. Believe me always | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock …
From John Lubbock 1 July [1866]
Summary
Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5138 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Lubbock 1 July [1866] …
- … See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Lubbock, 23 [February 1863] and n. 5. …
- … DAR 170: 52 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury High Elms 1 July [1866] …
- … memoir. Hoping you continue to improve I remain | Yours affect | John Lubbock C Darwin Esq …
From John Lubbock [21 October 1866]
Summary
Anxious to make acquaintance of Ernst Haeckel [who was staying with CD].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5252 |
To John Lubbock 2 August [1866]
Summary
Has read abstract of JL’s paper ["On the present state of archaeological science", Athenæum 21 July 1866, pp. 79–82] and praises it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 2 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5172 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 2 August [1866] …
- … 63 Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Aug [1866] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … between this letter and the letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 . The reference is to …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
To John Lubbock 15 November 1866
Summary
Asks JL to look up a paper by Thomas Hincks on Polyzoa or Bryozoa [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 2d ser. 1 (1861): 278–81].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 15 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 1 (EH 88205926) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5278 |
From E. F. Lubbock [1 October 1866]
Summary
Herbert Spencer is staying with the Lubbocks and would much like to see CD.
Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4728 |
From Harriet Lubbock [April? 1866]
Summary
Local matters.
Author: | Harriet Hotham; Harriet Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr? 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4960 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … D. Hooker, [after 28 April 1866] , suggests that John Lubbock had returned by the end of …
- … April. Harriet Lubbock was John Lubbock’s mother. CD was treasurer of the Down Coal and …
- … which contributions of £1 each from John Lubbock , Ellen Lubbock, and Harriet Lubbock are …
- … CD’s note has not been found. John and Ellen Frances Lubbock were in Europe in the spring …
- … John & Ellen are away from home but I am sure will quite agree with you so I send you 3£ 1 for each of us. I hope dear M rs Darwin is pretty well I heard she had been ill wh I was very sorry for. pray give her my very kind love— I assure you all Lubbocks feel proud to get a Note from you & prize them so I can only thank you heartily for yours & hope you will believe me | Your much obliged | Harriet Lubbock …
To J. D. Hooker 2 October [1866]
Summary
Did not think JDH had written Murray review [see 5217].
Does not think Gardeners’ Chronicle best for publication of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 6–7, 27, 50–1, 75–6].
T. Laxton’s article, on direct action of pollen of peas on seed and pod, a grand physiological fact and "delightful" for Pangenesis.
Interview with Herbert Spencer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 301 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5227 |
To Robert Swinhoe [September 1866]
Summary
Hooker’s lecture to BAAS ["Insular floras"] was capital,
but hears Wallace’s paper [Address to Anthropology Section, Rep. BAAS 36 (1866): 93–4] was best.
Pleased RS continues zealous work for natural history.
CD considers the report that N. American antelopes’ horns are intermediate between hollow and solid horns of ruminants to be one of the more curious facts he has lately heard of with respect to higher animals [C. A. Canfield, "On the habits of the prongbuck", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 105–11].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
Date: | [Sept 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 329r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5202 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1866]
Summary
Orchids.
Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.
Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5076 |
To W. D. Fox 24 August [1866]
Summary
Family news. Describes [final] illness of Susan Darwin [d. 3 Oct 1866]. CD’s health better.
Making rapid progress on Variation.
Has heard of hybrids between moths mentioned by WDF.
Work on [4th] edition of Origin has delayed Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 24 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5197 |
To B. D. Walsh 24 December [1866]
Summary
Balbiani’s puzzling observations on Aphis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5320 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 May 1866
Summary
JDH sends a list of the principal confirmatory evidences of CD’s theory which he has prepared at W. R. Grove’s request for Nottingham speech ["Presidential address", Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5104 |
To B. D. Walsh 20 August [1866]
Summary
On various subjects: Dana’s misquotations,
H. J. Clark’s book Mind in nature [1865],
BDW’s Cynips experiments, galls,
Balbiani’s paper on aphids ["Sur la reproduction et l’embryogénie des pucerons", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 62 (1866): 1231–4, 1285–9, 1390–4].
Claus and other Germans testing CD’s views of variability in common lower animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 20 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5194 |
From A. R. Wallace 19 November 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for 4th ed. of Origin.
Discusses abnormal sexual characters produced by mimicry. ARW’s papers on the subject.
Agassiz’s "marvellous" Amazonian glacier theory.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B39–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5280 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1866]
Summary
Plants arrived.
Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.
Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.
Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.
Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 118–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5302 |
To Williams & Norgate 10 February [1866]
Summary
Orders Richard Owen’s Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8],
subscribes to Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
and orders three back numbers of Medical Times and Gazette.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 10 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (ASHCOMBE COLLECTION/V/52) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5002 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 September 1866]
Summary
On his "Insular floras" lecture.
Huxley’s success as President of Section.
D. W. R. Grove’s address. Grove left Darwinism to JDH after "sounding the charge".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Sept 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 100–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5206 |
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Lubbock, John | (3) |
Hordern, E. F. | (1) |
Hotham, Harriet | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
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Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
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Lubbock, John | (5) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Hordern, E. F. | (1) |
Hotham, Harriet | (1) |
Lubbock, E. F. | (1) |
Lubbock, Harriet | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (1) |