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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 …

From John Lubbock   7 April 1863

Summary

JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".

Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 170: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4077

Matches: 7 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   7 April 1863 …
  • … that once a For.  always a For. Is it not so? Yours affec ly | John Lubbock C Darwin Esq …
  • … DAR 170: 39 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 7 Apr …
  • … Review ( Lubbock 1863e ). See letter to John Lubbock, 5 April [1863] . Lubbock was one of …
  • … Hooker, [24 March 1863] , and letter to John Lubbock, 5 April [1863] and n.  7. See also …
  • … 17 April 1863] , and letter to John Lubbock, 5 April [1863] and n.  10. See Appendix VII …

To John Lubbock   23 [February 1863]

Summary

CD’s comments on JL’s paper [first part of "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  23 [Feb 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 59
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3939

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   23 [February 1863] …
  • … See also letter from John Lubbock, 20 February 1863 . …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 [Feb 1863] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Lubbock, John. 1863–5. On the development of Chloëon ( …
  • … recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that John Lubbock dined at Down House on 22 February 1863. …

From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin   6 November 1863

Summary

Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  6 Nov 1863
Classmark:  DAR 170: 43
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4331

Matches: 5 hits

  • Lubbock, John Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
  • … From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin   6 November 1863 …
  • … DAR 170: 43 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 6 Nov …
  • … he had borrowed from CD (see letter from John Lubbock to Emma Darwin, 24 October 1863 ). …
  • … r . Darwin is now. Please give him my love & Believe me | Yours very truly | John Lubbock

To John Lubbock   15 December [1874]

Summary

Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.

Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  15 Dec [1874]
Classmark:  University of Liverpool Library (Rathbone XXI.12.3: 4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9760

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   15 December [1874] …
  • … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Lubbock, John. 1874–7. Observations on the habits of …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Dec [1874] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … 466; Correspondence vol.  7, letter to John Lubbock, 14 December [1859] ). The first part …

From John Lubbock   14 October 1863

Summary

Is working on a notice for the Natural History Review [n.s. 4 (1864): 37–43] of Huxley’s lectures to working men on the origin of species.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Oct 1863
Classmark:  DAR 170: 41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4320

Matches: 5 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   14 October 1863 …
  • … DAR 170: 41 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 14 Oct …
  • … Bibliography [Lubbock, John. ] 1864b. Huxley’s lectures on the origin of species. Natural …
  • … rs Darwin & all your family, Yours affec | John Lubbock C Darwin Esq I send this to Down, …

To John Lubbock   9 August [1861]

Summary

JL’s kindness has laid William and himself "under an enduring obligation". One clause in the partnership agreement seems harsh but will probably never signify.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  9 Aug [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 48 (EH 88206492)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3228

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   9 August [1861] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Torquay 9 Aug [1861] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … Mackmurdo Hacon . See the letters to John Lubbock beginning with that of [25 May 1861]. …
  • … See letter to John Lubbock, 1 [and 2] August [1861] . Lubbock asked CD and his …
  • … Lepisma , the silver-fish (see letter to John Lubbock, 1 [and 2] August [1861] ). Russell …
  • … II). Lubbock, a partner with his father John William Lubbock in the London bank Robarts, …

To John Lubbock   12 [June 1856]

Summary

Smallpox in the village. Death of Joseph Parslow’s son.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  12 [June 1856]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 3 (EH 88206450)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1900

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   12 [June 1856] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 [June 1856] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … see n.  3, below). See letter to John Lubbock, [8 June 1856] . CD went to London and back …

From John Lubbock   10 June 1858

Summary

Thanks for queen-bee larva and pupa.

Nervous system of Coccus.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 June 1858
Classmark:  DAR 170: 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2284

Matches: 4 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   10 June 1858 …
  • … DAR 170: 21 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury High Elms 10 June 1858 Charles …
  • John Lubbock was preparing a paper on the digestive and nervous systems of the insect …

To John Lubbock   24 June [1861]

Summary

There have been delays, but William Darwin’s banking position is nearly settled.

Is going to Torquay, where he will write up his work on orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  24 June [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 40d (EH 88206453)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3195

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   24 June [1861] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 June [1861] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … see Lubbock 1861c , p.  494). Montagu Lubbock , John Lubbock’s nineteen-year-old brother, …
  • … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
  • … 1861] , and 1 [June 1861] , and to John Lubbock , [25 May 1861] and 1 [June 1861]. At an …

To John Lubbock   [November 1858]

Summary

Praise for abstract of JL’s paper on insects ["On the ova and pseudova of insects", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 9 (1857–9): 574–83].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  [Nov 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 25 (EH 88206474)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2331

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   [November 1858] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down [Nov 1858] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Lubbock, John. 1859. On the ova and pseudova of …
  • … on this problem (see Correspondence vol.  6, letter to John Lubbock, [22 November 1857] ). …
  • … CD and John William Lubbock discussed the height of the water in their wells on several …

Lubbock, B. W. (1840–1909)

Matches: 4 hits

  • … 7,21 Lubbock, J. W. (b) Lubbock, John
  • … Younger brother of John Lubbock. Hutchinson 1914 . Bibliography Hutchinson, Horace …
  • … Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
  • … Beaumont William Lubbock 1840–1909 Fourth son of John William Lubbock. …

From John Lubbock   15 March 1859

Summary

Embryology of Diptera. Development of insects; metamorphosis. JL feels all insects go through metamorphosis but that in some of them, part takes place before birth.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Mar 1859
Classmark:  DAR 170: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2433

Matches: 4 hits

  • Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From John Lubbock   15 March 1859 …
  • … DAR 170: 22 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Mansion House St 15 …
  • … involving four or five larval stages. See letter to John Lubbock, 16 [March 1859] . …

To John Lubbock   14 [July 1855]

Summary

CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.

Thanks for Lepidoptera book.

Invites JL to dinner.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  14 [July 1855]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.621)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1831

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   14 [July 1855] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 [July 1855] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … to put in his vivarium (see letter to John Lubbock, 24 April [1855] ). See letter to G.   …
  • … Kent. John Innes was perpetual curate of Down. CD had previously asked Lubbock for some …

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   25 May [1860]

Summary

Local affairs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  25 May [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 32 (EH 88206481)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2815

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   25 May [1860] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 May [1860] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … refers to the committee overseeing the national school in Down, of which John Lubbock and …
  • … his father, John William Lubbock , were benefactors. The school was funded by charitable …

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   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 J. W. P. Blomfield to John Lubbock   5 March 1880

Summary

[Copy on CD’s stationery.] Lord S[andon] acknowledges receipt of JL’s letter and will consider the subject [Government support for James Torbitt’s potato experiments?].

Author:  Blomefield, J. W. P.
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  5 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 177: 340
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12515

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Blomefield, J. W. P. Lubbock, John
  • … From J.  W.  P.  Blomfield to John Lubbock   5 March 1880 …
  • … J. W. P. Board of Trade 5 Mar 1880 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …

To John Lubbock   21 [March 1859]

Summary

Development of aphids; apparent absence of vermiform stage.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  21 [Mar 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 30 (EH 88206479)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2419

Matches: 9 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John
  • … To John Lubbock   21 [March 1859] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 [Mar 1859] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … Dated by the relationship to the letters from John Lubbock , 15 March …
  • … 1859 and to John Lubbock , 16 [March 1859]. Lubbock had evidently lent CD a copy of the …
  • … usually spent the winter (see letter to John Lubbock, [6 February 1859] ). For Wollaston’s …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  6. See letter to John Lubbock, 8 March [1859] . CD was probably …
  • … 15 of the Medical Times & Gazette ). John William Lubbock . CD had attended the Birmingham …
  • Lubbock I return Linn. Trans. with thanks & I send all the Med. Times with articles on Crustacea. — If Sir John
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