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DCP-LETT-1167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1 Apr 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A17
Summary:

Thanks JSH for his address [Address delivered in the Ipswich Museum on 9th March 1848]. Questions a sentence which implies that only the practical use of a scientific discovery makes it worth while. The instinct for truth justifies science without any practical results. Cites his work on cirripedes.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-242

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
4 April 1848
Source of text:
British Library Add. 37194: 149-150
Summary:

Discusses establishment of the Museum of Economic Botany at Kew by William Jackson Hooker; asks about how to find a book of paper samples like one owned by Babbage for the Museum.

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Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-332

From:
Fred Calvert
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 April 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 58
Summary:

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Henslow Correspondence Project
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