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 |
To John Lubbock 16 [March 1859]
Summary
Wants JL’s opinion on paper by L. J. M. Dufour ["Études anatomiques sur les insectes diptères de la famille des pupipares", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 1345–55].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 16 [Mar 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 28 (EH 88206477) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2434 |
To John Lubbock 11 August [1857]
Summary
Asks JL not to call as he has a "very old friend" [J. S. Henslow] coming to visit him.
Yesterday visited poultry show at Crystal Palace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 21 (EH 88206470) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2481 |
To John Lubbock [19 November 1859]
Summary
Has told John Murray to send copy of the Origin. There are "many valid and weighty arguments against my notions".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [19 Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 16 (EH 88206465) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2527 |
To John Lubbock [22 November 1859]
Summary
CD’s former admiration for Paley’s Natural theology [1802].
Cares not for reviews [of Origin] but for opinions of men like Lubbock, Huxley, Hooker, Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 17 (EH 88206466) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2532 |
To John Lubbock 14 December [1859]
Summary
Is preparing a reprint of Origin. Asks JL’s opinion on the book’s merits; values his judgment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 14 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 15 (EH 88206464) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2584 |
To John Lubbock 17 December [1859]
Summary
Local affairs and finances.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 31 (EH 88206480) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2586 |
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 |
To John Lubbock 29 [May 1860]
Summary
Local affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 29 [May 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40 (EH 88206484) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2817 |
To John Lubbock [4 July 1860]
Summary
Birth of JL’s child.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [4 July 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 38 (EH 88206482) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2859 |
To John Lubbock 20 July [1860]
Summary
Is puzzled what to think about the [Natural History] Review. Doubts that it is wise that JL and Huxley should give up time to it: "if it would stop your doing original work you ought not, even pro bono publico, undertake the new work".
Reports on Henrietta’s health.
The Quarterly Review [108 (1860): 255–64] quizzes CD "capitally" and he read it with thorough enjoyment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 20 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40a (EH 88206447) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2874 |
To John Lubbock [18 November 1860]
Summary
Drawing up paper on Drosera but will not publish till results are tested.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [18 Nov 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 39 (EH 88206483) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2988 |
To John Lubbock 28 November [1860]
Summary
Praise for a paper on the Entomostraca by Lubbock (Lubbock 1862). Thanks for the compliment paid to the Origin and for his general comments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 28 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40b (EH 88206449) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3001 |
To John Lubbock [before 5 February 1861]
Summary
Comments on JL’s paper ["Notes on the generative organs, and on the formation of the egg in the Annulosa", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 11 (1860–2): 117–24].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [before 5 Feb 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40c (EH 88206451) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3038 |
To John Lubbock [25 May 1861]
Summary
Discusses the possibility of a banking job for William [Darwin]; wishes to meet JL to discuss the prospects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [25 May 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 41 (EH 88206485) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3158 |
To John Lubbock 1 June [1861]
Summary
William Darwin can go to Southampton any time should the banking proposition come to anything. CD is sure he would work hard.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 1 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 42 (EH 88206486) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3172 |
To John Lubbock 6 June [1861]
Summary
Arrangements for a meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 6 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 3 (EH 88205928) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3177 |
To John Lubbock [8 June 1861]
Summary
Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [8 June 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 2 (EH 88205927) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179 |
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 |
To John Lubbock 10 July [1861]
Summary
Seeks JL’s advice on the articles of partnership in the Southampton bank. CD and his solicitor fear they will be unfavourable to William.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 10 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 43 (EH 88206487) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3205 |
| letter | (169) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (103) |
| Lubbock, John | (66) |
| Hordern, E. F. | (1) |
| Lubbock, E. F. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (103) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (66) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (169) |
| Lubbock, John | |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Hordern, E. F. | (1) |
| Lubbock, E. F. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
