To John Lubbock [29 July 1856]
Summary
Regrets he cannot help JL; the point [unspecified] was always a trouble to CD also.
Has been to a poultry show.
Asks for the return of a lens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [29 July 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 13 (EH 88206462) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1620 |
To John Lubbock 24 April [1856]
Summary
Congratulations on JL’s marriage. Invitation to dine at Down with the Hookers, Huxleys, and T. V. Wollaston.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 24 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 2 (EH 88206448) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1859 |
To John Lubbock [14 January 1856]
Summary
Inquires about a Mr Smith, who might prove helpful "in the domestic bird line".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [14 Jan 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 6 (EH 88206455) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1884 |
To John Lubbock [8 June 1856]
Summary
Wishes to borrow fly pincers for his son George.
Discusses T. V. Wollaston’s book on insect variation [On the variation of species (1856)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [8 June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 4 (EH 88206452) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1896 |
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 |
To John Lubbock 5 September [1856]
Summary
Quotes passage from [Frédéric?] Gerard on distribution of certain Lepidoptera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 5 Sept [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 9 (EH 88206458) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1949 |
To John Lubbock 23 September [1856]
Summary
Sends review by Quatrefages [de Bréau] of Owen’s Parthenogenesis [1849].
J. D. Dana’s congratulations on JL’s marriage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 23 Sept [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 283: 12 (EH 88206461) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1960 |
To John Lubbock 27 October [1856]
Summary
Comments on JL’s paper on Daphnia, ["An account of methods of reproduction in Daphnia and of the structure of the ephippium", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 27 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 14 (EH 88206463) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1979 |
To John Lubbock [1 November 1856]
Summary
Discusses arthropod structure and the nature of the corium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [1 Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 5 (EH 88206454) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1980 |
To John Lubbock [March? 1856]
Summary
JL is studying Cynipidae. CD sends galls for his examination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [Mar? 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 10 (EH 88206459) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2028 |