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From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 168: 59
Summary:

Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.

Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 45: 20–4
Summary:

[Copy of some rough notes.] References about species. Variations within species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1860
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 95–103)
Summary:

Has read Origin and considers it one of the most valuable contributions to present-day natural history. Believes, however, that there are difficulties in the extensive generalisation that all taxonomic groups are related by descent. Does not understand how Genesis is to be read unless at least the human species was created independently of other animals. Cannot bring himself to the idea that man’s reasoning and moral sense could have been obtained from "irrational progenitors": the "Divine Image" is the unsurmountable distinction between man and brutes. [See 2644.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1861
Source of text:
DAR 168: 56
Summary:

Thanks CD for his contribution to the memoir of Henslow [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 55
Summary:

Sends proof-sheets of CD’s contribution to LJ’s Memoir of Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 168: 57
Summary:

Pleased with CD’s opinion of the Henslow Memoir [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A14–15, DAR 84.1: 116–17
Summary:

On polygamous birds and the pairing of birds. Late singing of males. [see Descent 2: 107.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 30 Mar 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 279
Summary:

LJ has had a letter from R. T. Lowe in Madeira who thinks Scorpaena histrio, a species from Galapagos described in no. 1 [of Fish], is the same as the one in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. LJ does not think it is possible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 168: 58
Summary:

Sends his notes on Florent Prévost’s reference to the habits of the cuckoo.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project