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From John Lubbock   10 January 1864

Summary

JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".

Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 170: 44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4384

Matches: 10 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   10 January 1864 …
  • … DAR 170: 44 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury Lamas, Chislehurst 10 Jan 1864 …
  • … London: Macmillan. [Lubbock, John. ] 1864b. Huxley’s lectures on the origin of species. …
  • … Press. Hutchinson, Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. …
  • … See letter to John Lubbock, [1 January 1864] . Lubbock refers to CD’s assessment of his …
  • … working men ( T.  H.  Huxley 1863a ; see letter to John Lubbock, [1 January 1864] and n.   …
  • … 3). See letter to John Lubbock, [1 January 1864] and n.  4. Lubbock ended his review ( [ …
  • … 9, letter to W.  E.  Darwin, [25 May 1861] , and letter to John Lubbock, [25 May 1861] ). …
  • … soon as you are quite well enough, & believe me always | Your most affec t | John Lubbock

From John Lubbock   20 December 1864

Summary

Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Dec 1864
Classmark:  DAR 170: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4719

Matches: 5 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   20 December 1864 …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  12, Appendix IV. See letter to John Lubbock, 21 December [1864] . …
  • … DAR 170: 49 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury Chislehurst 20 Dec 1864 …
  • … would not bore you to write. Believe me always | Yours affec | John Lubbock C Darwin Esq …

From John Lubbock   2 September 1864

Summary

Wishes to borrow volumes 1 and 3 of Narrative [vol. 1 by Capt. P. P. King, vol. 3 by CD].

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Sept 1864
Classmark:  DAR 170: 47
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4606

Matches: 5 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   2 September 1864 …
  • … DAR 170: 47 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 2 Sept …
  • … on improving. Believe me, dear M r . Darwin, | Yours affec | John Lubbock C Darwin Esq …
  • … the High Elms estate, home of Lubbock’s father, John William Lubbock . Lubbock lived in …

To John Lubbock   21 December [1864]

Summary

The Copley medal. Sabine’s Presidential Address and Huxley’s response.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  21 Dec [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 60 (EH 88206504)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4721

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   21 December [1864] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Dec [1864] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … between this letter and the letter from John Lubbock, 20 December 1864 . CD refers to …
  • … 30 November 1864 (see letter from John Lubbock, 20 December 1864  and n.  1). For Thomas …

To John Lubbock   [1 January 1864]

Summary

JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  [1 Jan 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4375

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   [1 January 1864] …
  • … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. [Lubbock, John. ] 1864b. Huxley’s lectures on the …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down [1 Jan 1864] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … this letter and the letter from John Lubbock, 10 January 1864 . The Fridays preceding 10  …
  • John Scott, 8 January [1864] ). Having suffered poor health throughout the summer of 1863, CD had been particularly ill during the last four months of the year (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Emma Darwin to W.  D.  Fox, 8 December [1863] , and Appendix II). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 1 January 1864 records: ‘acid sickness 8 – good day billiards’. Lubbock’ …

To John Lubbock   19 November [1864]

Summary

About buying shares.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  19 Nov [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 62 (EH 88206506)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4674

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   19 November [1864] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Nov [1864] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … to or from Lubbock in November. See letter from John Lubbock, 3 November 1864  and n.  1. …
  • … Sunday 6 November (see letter from John Lubbock, 3 November 1864 ). Emma Darwin’s diary ( …

From John Lubbock   3 November 1864

Summary

Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Nov 1864
Classmark:  DAR 170: 48
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4653

Matches: 5 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   3 November 1864 …
  • … DAR 170: 48 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury Athenaeum Club 3 Nov 1864 …
  • … seeing you in the morning. — Believe me always | Yours affec | John Lubbock C Darwin Esq …
  • John Phillips, 12 November 1863 . The reference is to ‘On dimorphism in the hymenopterous genus Cynips ’, by Benjamin Dann Walsh ( Walsh 1864a ). CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.  See letter from B.  D.  Walsh, 29 April – 19 May 1864  and n.  7. Lubbock

From John Lubbock   28 July 1864

Summary

Has obtained microscopes for CD.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 170: 46
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4575

Matches: 4 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   28 July 1864 …
  • … DAR 170: 46 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury High Elms 28 July 1864 Charles …
  • … Darwin | Yours very affectionately | John Lubbock C Darwin Esq P.S.  Is the book that you …

To T. H. Huxley   11 April [1864]

Summary

Thanks for Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy [1864].

If Owen wrote article on "Oken" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed.] and French work on archetype he never did a baser act [see ML 1: 246 n.].

Bad health lately.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  11 Apr [1864]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 203)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4459

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Haven and London: Yale University Press. [Lubbock, John. ] 1864b. Huxley’s lectures on the …
  • … T.  H.  Huxley 1863 ; see also letter to John Lubbock, [1 January 1864] and n.  3). …
  • … reprinted the last sentences of Huxley 1863a was John Lubbock’s review of the work ( [ …
  • … Lubbock] 1864 ; see letter from John Lubbock, 10 January 1864 , n.  3. …

To B. D. Walsh   21 October [1864]

Summary

Thanks for letter and memoirs.

Suggests a "rather hopeless experiment" of introducing poisons into tissues of plants on the chance that monstrous growths may be produced.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  21 Oct [1864]
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4640

Matches: 4 hits

  • … vol.  7, Supplement, letter to John Lubbock, [March? 1856] and n.  3, and Descent 2: 314). …
  • … 1864a , pp.  447–8). CD refers to John Lubbock . Lubbock had been interested in Cynips …
  • … See Correspondence vol.  7, Supplement, letter to John Lubbock, [March? 1856] and nn.   …
  • … See also this volume, letter from John Lubbock, 3 November 1864 . It is not known whether …

To J. D. Hooker   26 November [1864]

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CD’s Lythrum paper has given him as much satisfaction as working out complemental males in cirripedes.

Response to award of Copley Medal.

Letters from Germany and France support natural selection.

Now that climbing plants are done, CD asks for Drosera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  26 Nov [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 254a–c
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4682

Matches: 3 hits

  • … he surely ought to have it, as ought John Lubbock. — By the way the latter tells me that …
  • … 3  November 186[4] , letter from John Lubbock, 3 November 1864 , letter from Henry …
  • … 4 November 1864 . Neither Hugh Falconer nor John Lubbock ever received the Royal Medal of …

From E. A. Darwin   1 February [1864]

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Tells of a declaration and a subscription list to defend the rights of Bishop Colenso.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Feb [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B23–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4400

Matches: 2 hits

  • … and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Lubbock, 5 April [1863] and n.  8, letter from …
  • … that he signed the list (see n.  3, above). John Lubbock was a partner in the family bank, …

From J. D. Hooker   30 August 1864

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John Scott has sailed.

Concurs with Lyell that CD need not reply to Kölliker.

CD’s Bignonia plants cannot be told apart without flowers.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Aug 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 236–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4602

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Charles Wallich , and Henry Christy . John Lubbock lived near Down in Chislehurst, Kent. …

From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin   21 December [1864]

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Sends a translation by Mr Noel [not found] of C. B. von Cotta’s views on CD’s and Lyell’s work.

Author:  Alice Bonham-Carter
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  21 Dec [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 241
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4722

Matches: 1 hit

  • … A copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. John Lubbock . Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter was the …

From J. D. Hooker   [19 September 1864]

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Reports on personalities at the Bath meeting of BAAS [Sept 1864].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [19 Sept 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 240–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4616

Matches: 2 hits

  • … R.  Desmond 1999 ). Ellen Frances Lubbock . John Lubbock . Wokey (Wookey) hole near Wells, …
  • … Correspondence vol.  10, letters from John Lubbock , 17 April 1862  and n.  1, and 15 May  …

From J. D. Hooker   26 August 1864

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Hookers and Lyells will visit Lubbocks so he cannot see CD in London.

Will CD sit for Woolner?

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Aug 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 234–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4600

Matches: 1 hit

  • … August 1864] and n.  2. Hooker refers to John Lubbock , who lived in Chislehurst, Kent, a …

To B. D. Walsh   4 December [1864]

Summary

Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".

The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  4 Dec [1864]
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4695

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Cynips ’ ( Walsh 1864a ), written by John Lubbock , appeared in the January 1865 issue of …
  • … 21 October [1864] , and letter from John Lubbock, 3 November 1864 . An annotated copy of …

From T. H. Huxley   4 November 1864

Summary

His pleasure at Royal Society Copley Medal for CD. Recounts meeting of Royal Society Council.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Nov 1864
Classmark:  DAR 166: 303
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4655

Matches: 1 hit

  • … London , p.  347). See letter from John Lubbock, 3 November 1864  and n.  2, and Appendix …

From J. D. Hooker   9 [March] 1864

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Reception of Scott’s paper.

Difficulty of writing Boott’s obituary.

Critical of Edward Frankland’s glacial theory.

Falconer’s and Ramsay’s views on Himalayan lakes lack support of basic evidence.

Taxonomic distribution of climbing plants.

Huxley picks quarrels with minor figures and thus magnifies them.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 [Mar] 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 189–92
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4404

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Society of London, presided over by John Lubbock , see Stocking 1971 , Stocking 1987 , …
  • … of defence from Blake (pp.  303–4). John Lubbock’s family lived at Chislehurst, Kent, …

From W. D. Fox   28 November [1864]

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Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.

Author:  William Darwin Fox
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Nov [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 164: 182
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4683

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Hooker, 25 [June 1864] , letter to John Lubbock, 19 November [1864] and n.  5, and letter …
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