To John Lubbock 23 January [1862]
Summary
Has had 16 in the household ill.
Wants to meet JL.
Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 23 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3409 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter from John Lubbock, 6 January 1862 , and by the reference to Emma Darwin’s trip to London (see n. 5, below). In 1861, John and Ellen Frances Lubbock moved from High Elms, near Down, to Chislehurst, Kent. Lubbock had been trying to arrange a meeting with CD for several weeks (see letter from E. F. …
- … Lubbock 1862a (see letter from John Lubbock, 6 January 1862 and n. 2). Lubbock 1862b . According to her diary (DAR 242), Emma Darwin stayed in London from 23 to 25 January 1862 in order to take Leonard Darwin to the dentist. She stayed at the home of Erasmus Alvey Darwin , CD’s brother. Ellen Frances Lubbock gave birth to the Lubbocks’ fourth child, Norman, on 16 December 1861 ( Hutchinson 1914 ; Gentleman’s Magazine , n.s. 12 (1862): 82). See also letter from E. F. …
To J. D. Hooker 2 October [1866]
Summary
Did not think JDH had written Murray review [see 5217].
Does not think Gardeners’ Chronicle best for publication of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 6–7, 27, 50–1, 75–6].
T. Laxton’s article, on direct action of pollen of peas on seed and pod, a grand physiological fact and "delightful" for Pangenesis.
Interview with Herbert Spencer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 301 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5227 |
From F. E. Abbot 3 March 1874
Summary
Asks CD to read and comment, for publication, on his forthcoming essay in Index on the evolution of conscience and morals through action and reaction between man and the moral environment.
Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9332 |
To John Lubbock [8 August 1875 or earlier]
Summary
Discusses the time of the Duke’s arrival on Tuesday. [See 9968.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [8 Aug 1875 or earlier] |
Classmark: | Kenneth Hince Book Auctions (dealer) (8 November 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9968A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Lubbock’s diary, BL Add mss 62680); the meeting had originally been planned for Tuesday 11 May, but was postponed (see letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] and n. 3). In late July 1875, Alice Lane Fox asked Ellen Frances Lubbock , John Lubbock’s wife, to pass on to CD a letter concerning the regrowth of an amputated sixth digit on her son’s hand (see letter from A. M. Lane Fox to E. F. …
From T. H. Huxley 21 April 1875
Summary
Lord Cardwell thinks it unlikely that Parliament will take any action on a vivisection bill this session. Playfair should be consulted.
E. F. W. Pflüger’s important memoir on how carbonic acid is produced by living matter and his speculation about origin of living matter [see 9931].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 339 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9942 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 March [1862]
Summary
Thinks JDH is a bit hard on Asa Gray.
Bates’s letter is that of a true thinker. Asks to see JDH’s to Bates. Point raised in it is most difficult. "There is one clear line of distinction; – when many parts of structure as in woodpecker show distinct adaptation to external bodies, it is preposterous to attribute them to effect of climate etc. – but when a single point, alone, as a hooked seed, it is conceivable that it may thus have arisen." His study of orchids shows nearly all parts of the flower co-adapted for fertilisation by insects and therefore the result of natural selection. Mormodes ignea "is a prodigy of adaptation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3472 |
letter | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |