From John Lubbock [after 28 April 1860?]1
My dear Mr. Darwin
I send you Murray’s Paper which you are quite welcome to keep.2
Haeckel on the eyes of Starfishes3 & Claparede on those of Insects4 are both in Siebold & Kollikers Arch.5 for 1859. Zweites Heft.
I can lend it to you whenever you like to have it.
Yours most faithfully | John Lubbock
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Claparède, Edouard. 1860. Zur Morphologie der zusammengesetzten Augen bei den Arthropoden. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 10: 191–214. [Reprinted in Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 6 (1860): 455–7.]
Haeckel, Ernst. 1860. Ueber die Augen und Nerven der Seesterne. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 10: 183–90.
Müller, Johannes. 1838–42. Elements of physiology. Translated from the German by William Baly. 2 vols. London: Taylor and Walton.
Müller, Johannes Peter. 1826. Zur vergleichenden Physiologie des Gesichtssinnes des Menschen und der Thiere, nebst einem Versuch über die Bewegungen der Augen und über den menschlichen Blick. Leipzig.
Murray, Andrew. 1857. On insect-vision and blind insects. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal n.s. 6: 120–38.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Gives CD references to papers on eyes of lower animals.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2394
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- High Elms, Farnborough
- Source of text
- DAR 48: 68
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2394,” accessed on 10 June 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2394.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8