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DCP-LETT-147

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
15 [Nov 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 10 DAR/1/1/10)
Summary:

Sailing date fixed for end of month. Beagle is beautiful. Details of instructions and route. Hopes voyage will not exceed four years. Quarters very confined. Considers Jenyns did wisely in not coming. If CD were longer out of college and some years older he never could have endured it.

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DCP-LETT-152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 Dec [1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 11 DAR/1/1/11)
Summary:

Confusion on board the Beagle at definite prospect of sailing. Gives directions for sending mail to Montevideo.

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DCP-LETT-171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 May & 16 June 1832
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 12 DAR/1/1/12)
Summary:

His first letter to JSH since December. Recounts his seasickness, geologising and marine collecting at St Jago [Santiago, Cape Verde Is.]; his first tropical forest. Collecting small insects from the tropics. His Welsh trip with Sedgwick has been extremely valuable.

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DCP-LETT-1738

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/35/129)
Summary:

Has left a book from Henslow for JDH at Athenaeum.

When Asa Gray wrote, did he send marked sheets [of his Manual of botany]?

Has just made out "new & wonderful" specific character between two of his pigeon breeds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[23 July –] 15 Aug [1832]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 13 DAR/1/1/13)
Summary:

Specimens being sent off. Describes his collection of rocks, plants, and insects. Some particularly interesting specimens.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[c. 26 Oct –] 24 Nov [1832]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 14 DAR/1/1/14)
Summary:

A French collector [Alcide d’Orbigny] has been at the Rio Negro and will probably have "taken the cream". CD’s luck with fossil bones, among them a large extinct armadillo-like animal. Describes some birds, toads, Crustacea, and other marine specimens. Nearly all plants flowering at Bahia Blanca were collected. Is sending two large casks of fossil bones by packet.

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DCP-LETT-2003

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 684)
Summary:

Asks GB for help in clearing up his problems about Leguminosae, in connection with his "wild bit of speculation on the crossing of plants" [see Natural selection, p. 71].

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DCP-LETT-2005

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 685)
Summary:

Thanks GB for information on Leguminosae, especially about those with apetalous flowers and almost without anthers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2010

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 687)
Summary:

Thanks GB for information on apetalous flowers. "The whole order [Leguminosae] will remain my detestable enemies."

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DCP-LETT-204

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
11 Apr 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 17 DAR/1/1/17)
Summary:

Description of the months at Tierra del Fuego. His first sight of the primitive Fuegians. Geological and zoological observations and specimens.

The Falklands: geological and zoological observations.

Convinced the [Megatherium] sent to Royal College of Physicians [by Woodbine Parish] belongs to same formation as bones he sent home.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 July 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 18 DAR/1/1/18)
Summary:

Fears JSH will think his collections scanty. Makes it a constant rule to prefer obscure and diminutive tribes of animals.

Now has a servant whom he has taught to skin birds, etc.

Lists four barrels of specimens he is sending.

Gives future route. He looks forward to the western coast of South America.

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DCP-LETT-216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[20–7] Sept 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 19 DAR/1/1/19)
Summary:

Informs JSH that a Spanish friend has offered him a cargo of bones. If they arrive, he has arranged with Edward Lumb to forward them to JSH. [Forwarded to JSH with 244.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 682–3)
Summary:

Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.

Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.

Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 681
Summary:

For his studies on fertility of crosses, asks GB to mark a list of pairs of Cucubalus as to whether they are varieties of the same species, or distinct species.

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DCP-LETT-2189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700a)
Summary:

Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-229

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
12 Nov 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 20 DAR/1/1/20)
Summary:

Is sending a cargo of specimens – birds’ skins, small quadrupeds, and fossil bones.

Describes his overland trip from Rio Negro to Buenos Aires and his expedition to Santa Fé.

Asks for mineralogical works to help him with the volcanic rocks of the west coast.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2315

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
[30 July 1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence S. American letters 1852–8, 38: 148)
Summary:

Thanks WJH for an extract on seed transport by sea. [Letter sent with 2314.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2342

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 686)
Summary:

At Hooker’s request, sends his copy of Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)], "shamefully scribbled over".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
Mar 1834
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 21 DAR/1/1/21)
Summary:

On fossils ([Megatherium], etc.), plants, shells sent and new ones found; geological observations. Asks for help in understanding cleavage and planes of deposition.

A new species of ostrich. Cites differences in size, colour, nidification, and geographical distribution.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-251

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
24 July & 28 Oct & 7 Nov 1834
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 22 DAR/1/1/22)
Summary:

CD is excited by JSH’s high opinion of his collections.

Discusses his notes and some new discoveries. Summary of events since leaving Falklands.

Geology of Patagonia.

Corallines at Tierra del Fuego convince him of artificiality of arrangement of their families by Lamarck and Cuvier.

Geological expedition in Andes, ending with serious illness. Specimens being sent.

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