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To G. R. Waterhouse   [January–June 1850]

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Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society.

Asks for B. H. Hodgson’s pamphlet on sheep ["Tame sheep and goats", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26]. Asks for odd numbers of GRW’s work [A natural history of the Mammalia (1846–8)]. Regrets that this work has stopped.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Robert Waterhouse
Date:  [Jan–June 1850]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1144

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  • … Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society. Asks for B. H. …
  • John Lubbock was elected to membership on 1 July 1850. Waterhouse was president of the …

From J. D. Dana   [before 29 December 1850]

Summary

Gives his opinion that the larval antennae in Lepas correspond with the inferior antennae, the superior not present, as in most Daphnidae. [See 1381.]

Author:  James Dwight Dana
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 29 Dec 1850]
Classmark:  Living Cirripedia (1851): 15 n.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1380A

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  • … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
  • … in Calanidæ are the antica, or antenæ’. John Lubbock , in his first published paper, …

To J. S. Bowerbank   [24 January – 7 March 1850]

Summary

Thanks JSB for specimens of fossil Balanidae.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Scott Bowerbank
Date:  [24 Jan – 7 Mar 1850]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.91)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1296

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  • … set up by Bowerbank in 1847, but John William Lubbock’s name appears on the first list of …