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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 and 21 Jan 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 111
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of two letters from CD and a box of specimens.

Mentions attendance at BAAS meeting and a gift to him of a small living near Oxford. Some political news.

Congratulates CD on the work he has done – the specimens are of great interest. Gives advice on packing, labelling, and future collecting and suggests that – as a precaution – CD send home a copy of his notes on the specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
23 Jan [1833]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 15 DAR/1/1/15)
Summary:

EAD will forward a book and letter to CD; thanks JSH for sending CD’s letters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1833
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser. 2): 14–15
Summary:

The [Megatherium] fossils were extremely interesting and were shown at the Geological Section of the BAAS meeting at Cambridge [1833].

The plants delight him; will work them out with W. J. Hooker.

CD should send every fossil he can find; minute insects will be nearly all new. Delighted with descriptions of the few animals alluded to.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Brown
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 June 1833
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library Waller Ms alb-62:274
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Jerdan
Date:
11 July 1833
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library Waller Ms alb-77:187
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
W. V. Harcourt
Date:
8 August 1833
Source of text:
Oxford, Bodleian Library MS.Eng.d.3873 ff.162-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
E. A. Darwin
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 January 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Henslow letters 15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin family
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 February 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
William Orr
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 September 1833
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
William Buckland
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 September 1833
Source of text:
The Huntington Library mssHM 70385
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
W. Sperman
Date:
17 October 1833
Source of text:
National Library of Ireland Monteagle Family Papers MS 13,375/16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
John Phillips
Date:
2 July 1833
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections, John Phillips Collection 1833/13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
John Phillips
Date:
1 November 1833
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections, John Phillips Collection 1833/45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Buckland
Date:
10 January 1833
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Buckland
Date:
5 September 1833
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
C. T. Whitley
Date:
10 November 1833
Source of text:
Durham University Library Whitley Letters Add. MS 834/3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project