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To John Lubbock   [1871 or later]

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All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  [1871 or later]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 89
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7057

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   [1871 or later] …
  • … Robert Darwin unstated [1871 or later] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … earlier ( Post Office guide 1873). John Lubbock was MP for Maidstone from 1870 to 1880 ( …

To John Lubbock   17 November 1871

Summary

Praises and comments on JL’s essay on insects ["Origin of insects", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 11 (1873): 422–5].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  17 Nov 1871
Classmark:  DAR 261.7: 7 (EH 88205932)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8072

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   17 November 1871 …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Nov 1871 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … Correspondence vol.  10, letter from John Lubbock, 23 August 1862 , and Lubbock 1863 ). …

To John Lubbock   12 August [1871]

Summary

CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  12 Aug [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 67 (EH 88206511)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7904

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   12 August [1871] …
  • … Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Lubbock, John. 1863–5. On the development of Chloëon ( …
  • … Haredene, Albury Surrey 12 Aug [1871] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …

From John Lubbock   18 March [1871]

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Comments on Descent [2: 358–60] especially on CD’s view that behaviour of lower animals is evidence against JL’s interpretation [of aboriginal promiscuity]. View on communal marriage.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 89: 175–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7598

Matches: 4 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   18 March [1871] …
  • … DAR 89: 175–6 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury High Elms 18 Mar [1871] …
  • … Believe me | yours most sincerely | John Lubbock C Darwin Esq 3.1 109— … variations.   …

From Nevil Maskelyne to John Lubbock   3 December [1871]

Summary

Asks JL to obtain copies of CD’s botanical works for his wife.

Author:  Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  3 Dec [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 260
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8091

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Story, Nevil Story-Maskelyne, Nevil Lubbock, John
  • … From Nevil Maskelyne to John Lubbock   3 December [1871] …
  • … Maskelyne London, Hyde Park 3 Dec [1871] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …

From L. H. Morgan   1 August 1871

Summary

John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.

Author:  Lewis Henry Morgan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Aug 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 240
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7891

Matches: 2 hits

  • John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 ( …
  • … development of relationships’ ( Lubbock 1871a ), John Lubbock rejected Morgan’s conclusion …

To J. J. Weir   19 October 1871

Summary

"Like you I have often wondered at the different food of the old and young, as with graminivorous birds feeding their young with insects."

Recommends forthcoming book by John Lubbock [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Jenner Weir
Date:  19 Oct 1871
Classmark:  DAR 148: 328
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8018

Matches: 2 hits

  • … insects." Recommends forthcoming book by John Lubbock [ Monograph of the Collembola and …
  • … 1873  in August 1871 (see letter to John Lubbock, 12 August [1871] ). In Lubbock 1873 , …

From Nevil Maskelyne   8 December 1871

Summary

Thanks CD for papers he sent his wife. They will help her pass her time as an invalid.

Author:  Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Dec 1871
Classmark:  DAR 177: 261
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8100

Matches: 2 hits

  • … See letter from Nevil Maskelyne to John Lubbock, 3 December [1871] . Maskelyne’s wife was …
  • … behalf of my wife to you through Sir John Lubbock. Your paper on the Dimorphism of Linum …

From J. F. McLennan   21 August 1871

Summary

Thanks CD for helping with arrangements for an American edition [of Primitive marriage (1865)].

He is an old friend of CD’s son-in-law, R. B. Litchfield, and of John Lubbock.

Author:  John Ferguson McLennan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Aug 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7913

Matches: 2 hits

  • … 1865)]. He is an old friend of CD’s son-in-law, R. B. Litchfield, and of John Lubbock. …
  • … now comparatively well. When lately at Sir John Lubbock’s it was a disappointment to me to …

From K. T. E. von Siebold   29 November 1871

Summary

Thanks CD for copies of the Origin and Cirripedia;

sends his latest publication in return [Beiträge zur Parthenogenesis der Arthropoden (1871)]. Discusses his work on parthenogenesis which, he believes, is a case of atavism.

Author:  Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Nov 1871
Classmark:  DAR 177: 159
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8088

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Correspondence vol.  16, letter from John Lubbock, 12 February [1868] ). In Variation 2d …
  • … of fertilisation, see Lankester 1872 . John Lubbock had published several papers on the …

To E. B. Tylor   24 September [1871]

Summary

CD most interested by Primitive culture [1871]. Impressed by EBT’s account of development of religious beliefs and of the survival of old customs. Hopes EBT will treat morals.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:  24 Sept [1871]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 50254: 41–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7966

Matches: 1 hit

  • … law. CD refers to Alfred Russel Wallace , John Lubbock , Wallace 1870 , and Lubbock 1870 . …

From Andrew Smith   16 May 1871

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Disagrees with CD and especially with Lubbock and McLennan about communal marriage. [See Descent 2: 361–3.]

Author:  Andrew Smith
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 May 1871
Classmark:  DAR 89: 179–80
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7760

Matches: 2 hits

  • … labours and scenes in southern Africa ( Moffat 1842 ) ( ODNB ). CD discussed John Lubbock
  • John Ferguson McLennan’s views on the natural history of marriage and the practice of ‘communal marriage’ in Descent 2: 358–61. CD’s annotated copies of Lubbock  …

To Nevil Story-Maskelyne   6 December 1871

Summary

Sends a copy of Orchids for his wife, T. M. Story-Maskelyne, and a few other items she may wish to have.

Climbing Plants may be purchased at Williams and Norgate; he has no clean copies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
Date:  6 Dec 1871
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8098F

Matches: 1 hit

  • … vol. 19, letter from Nevil Maskelyne to John Lubbock, 3 December 1871 . Thereza had asked …

From Michael Foster   25 June 1871

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Regrets he cannot get to Queen Anne Street, but intends to come to Down.

Author:  Michael Foster
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 June 1871
Classmark:  DAR 164: 163
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7831

Matches: 1 hit

  • … about four miles north of Down. High Elms was the home of CD’s neighbour, John Lubbock . …

From F. A. Hanbury   4 September 1871

Summary

Thanks for £5 for the Voysey fund.

Author:  Francis Alfred Hanbury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Sept 1871
Classmark:  DAR 166: 94
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7923

Matches: 1 hit

  • … William Colenso , Charles Lyell , John Lubbock , Hensleigh Wedgwood , and Frances Power …

From W. E. Darwin   28 December [1871]

Summary

Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Dec [1871]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 48)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8122G

Matches: 1 hit

  • … William also refers to George Howard Darwin . John Lubbock . Elizabeth Darwin . …

From J. V. Carus   28 May 1871

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Sends corrections for Descent.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 May 1871
Classmark:  DAR 88: 106–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7774

Matches: 1 hit

  • … printing of Descent. CD had cited John Lubbock’s Pre-historic times , which used the …

To Hubert Airy   10 [December] 1871

Summary

Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.

Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hubert Airy
Date:  10 [Dec] 1871
Classmark:  DAR 143: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8060

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Down House on 15 January 1871, with John Lubbock , Thomas Henry Huxley , and Mountstuart …

To J. B. Innes   18 January [1871]

Summary

CD’s anxiety about being examined in court if Horsman [former curate at Down] brings suit. He doubts it will happen, but if so will defend himself to utmost.

Has pleasant recollections of his relations with JBI.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  18 Jan [1871]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7445

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1871 . Innes may have written to John Lubbock about the crisis over Horsman’s behaviour as …

From H. M. Westropp   20 April [1871]

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Anecdote of bear reasoning [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 76].

Similarity of forms of ornamentation and implements in widely separate races and ages [Descent 1: 233].

Author:  Hodder Michael Westropp
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 90: 38–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7703

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Europe during the Stone Age. Edited by John Lubbock. 3d edition. London: Longmans, Green, …
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