From John Lubbock 28 February 1863
Summary
Will come to dine on Monday unless he hears to the contrary.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4017 |
From John Lubbock 6 March 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for his review [of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies, Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Is glad Hooker approved of his [JL’s] lecture.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4029 |
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 |
From John Lubbock 4 September 1863
Summary
Has returned from trip to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Has been made President of the Ethnological Society.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4291 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From John Lubbock 22 and 26 March 1865
Summary
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 and 26 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4791 |
From John Lubbock 12 June [1865]
Summary
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4860 |
From John Lubbock 1 July [1866]
Summary
Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5138 |
From John Lubbock 4 August 1866
Summary
Returns Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5179 |
From John Lubbock [21 October 1866]
Summary
Anxious to make acquaintance of Ernst Haeckel [who was staying with CD].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5252 |
From John Lubbock 16 January 1867
Summary
JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5366 |
From John Lubbock 12 February 1867
Summary
H. T. Stainton should be elected F.R.S.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5400 |
From John Lubbock 25 March 1867
Summary
Discusses the practice of exogamy; asks if any animals have an instinctive repugnance to inbreeding.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5459 |
From John Lubbock 29 March 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for information.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5472 |
From John Lubbock 28 September [1867]
Summary
Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].
Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5635 |
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Lubbock, John | |
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