To John Lubbock 12 November [1881]
Summary
JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1881] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11743F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 12 November [1881] …
- … Bibliography Lubbock, John. 1881a. President’s address. Report of the 51st Meeting of the …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Nov [1881] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … had sent in August (see letter to John Lubbock, 2 August 1881 ). On the formation of …
To John Lubbock 6 November 1881
Summary
Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.
Bonney is an "objector general".
CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 104–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13463 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 6 November 1881 …
- … Geological Society of London 37: 37–235. Lubbock, John. 1881a. President’s address. Report …
- … 5) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Nov 1881 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … strata by Henry Hicks (see letter to John Lubbock, [18 September 1881] and n. 3). Hicks’s …
To John Lubbock 3 September [1881?]
Summary
Discusses insect attraction to artificial flowers. CD’s experiments of 40 years ago failed, but Nägeli reported success by scenting them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1881?] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49644: 94–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9622 |
To John Lubbock 2 August 1881
Summary
Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 2 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 100–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13269 |
To John Lubbock 16 April [1881?]
Summary
Suggests that the pappus of Compositae, when lying on ground, may absorb water which may function in seed germination.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1881?] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 97-8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13119 |
To John Lubbock [18 September 1881]
Summary
JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [18 Sept 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 11 (EH 88205936) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13308 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock [18 September 1881] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down [18 Sept 1881] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … Association 7 (1880–1): 59–87. Lubbock, John. 1881a. President’s address. Report of the …
- … Lubbock’s presidential address at the 1881 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (see n. 2, below), and by a reference in a letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 20 September [1881] : ‘Sir John …
To J. B. Innes 15 September 1881
Summary
CD interested in JBI’s observations of behaviour of bees. Finds his criticism about hexagonal cells made by queen wasps a good one. Cannot remember how he got out of the difficulty.
His book on worms to be published soon.
E. A. Darwin has died after short illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13339 |
To T. H. Farrer 28 August 1881
Summary
More on W. Graham’s book, The creed of science. Chance and design. Happiness.
E. A. Darwin’s death [26 Aug 1881].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 28 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13299 |
From Anthony Rich 2 September [1881]
Summary
Condolences on the death of E. A. Darwin.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13314 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 September 1881
Summary
Comte de Paris requests an orchid from CD for his huge collection.
JDH responds to CD’s criticism of York address.
Arruda Furtado could work on mystery of buried cypress trunks in the Azores.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 168–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13320 |
To Joseph Fayrer [after 10 January 1881]
Summary
Letter of introduction for Montagu Lubbock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [after 10 Jan 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 109v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13001 |
From Ernst Haeckel 21 June 1881
Summary
Plans visit to Ceylon.
Describes rejection of his application for funds by Berlin Academy. Asks about possibility of obtaining support in England. Is writing to Lubbock and Huxley about it.
Hopes that new microscope from Zeiss is satisfactory. Ernst Abbe selected lenses.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13213 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … unterstützen. Vielleicht können Sie mit Sir John Lubbock darüber conferiren. Ihr Microscop …
- … Perhaps you could discuss it with Sir John Lubbock. I hope your microscope from Zeiss has …
- … today sent identical letters to Sir John Lubbock and to Prof. Huxley , with the request …
- … sind. (!! ) Ich habe nun heute an Sir John Lubbock und an Prof. Huxley gleichlautende …
From H. N. Moseley 9 December 1881
Summary
He would support a foreigner for professorship of botany as CD suggests. W. T. Thiselton-Dyer is proposing W. C. Williamson, whom HNM considers a disaster.
| Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13535 |
From Ernst Haeckel 1 July 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for offer of financial support. Discusses application for funds for Ceylon trip.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13228 |
From G. J. Romanes 22 April [1881]
Summary
Only more sensitive seedlings respond to flashing light.
CD’s letter to Times ["On vivisection", 22 Apr 1881] in every way admirable.
GJR to be Zoological Secretary of Linnean Society.
Has decided on arrangement of material for his books Animal intelligence [1882]
and Mental evolution in animals [1883].
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1881] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13134 |
From P. H. Pye-Smith 19 December 1881
Summary
Urges CD to write on vivisection for Nineteenth Century or suggest a competent scientific author. Forming an association to forward interests of vivisectionists.
| Author: | Philip Henry Pye-Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13566 |
To A. B. Buckley 4 January 1881
Summary
Memorial for Wallace pension dispatched to W. E. Gladstone.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434); DAR 143: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12977 |
To W. E. Gladstone [4 January 1881]
Summary
Covering letter to enclose a memorial [petitioning for a civil list pension for Wallace].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | [4 Jan 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12975 |
To A. R. Wallace 10 January 1881
Summary
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12997 |
To T. H. Huxley 22 June 1881
Summary
Has had letter from Rothenburg asking him to help obtain a grant for Haeckel’s expedition to Ceylon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 22 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 364) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13215 |
| letter | (22) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Moseley, H. N. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Lubbock, John | (6) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Fayrer, Joseph | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
| Lubbock, John | (6) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
