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 |
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]
Summary
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 |
From E. A. Darwin 1 February [1864]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B23–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4400 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 August 1864
Summary
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 |
From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 21 December [1864]
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 September 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Sept 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 240–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4616 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1864
Summary
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 |
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 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 [March] 1864
Summary
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 |
From W. D. Fox 28 November [1864]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4683 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Lubbock, John | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Bonham-Carter, Alice | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Lubbock, John | (8) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |