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HENSLOW-660

From:
Sir B. Brodie
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 August 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 33
Summary:

Approves of the idea of a system of allotments for the agricultural population if they are near to their cottages. Reluctant to attend a meeting of Suffolk proprietors as his views differ greatly from most of them, particularly in relation to the Corn Laws.

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Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-669

From:
Lord Braybrooke
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
25 September 1843
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 42 & 42(ii)
Summary:

Compliments JSH on his account of the excavation of tumulus at Ringham. Says he has not seen Cuscuta in local region but may have seen evidence of it in scorched appearance of Berkshire clover fields.

States that his wheat harvest is not as good as previous year, but less mildewed. Describes experiment of growing different varieties of wheat in his garden, undermined by rats gaining access to them. Has observed a field of mustard on one of his farms, farmer states that it is good food for sheep and partridges.

Comments on the importance of John Warne’s flax growing scheme and growth of a large quantity of flax on a single acre at Thaxted. Also comments favourably on Warne’s theory of feeding oxen in boxes.

Fears he will have few guests for the Saffron Walden Agricultural Society annual meeting but pleased that JSH will be in attendance along with Edward Everett, the American Ambassador. JSH to advocate cooperative agricultural experiments at the meeting.

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Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-672

From:
H. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 October 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-675

From:
C. J. F. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 February 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 48
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-683

From:
William Buckland
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 July 1845
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-684

From:
William Buckland
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 November 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 57
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-79

From:
Ettwin Lumholtz
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 October 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-969

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Edward Solly
Date:
30 August 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 4251:639
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-970

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
W. J. Hooker
Date:
23 December 1845
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 4251:640
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-971

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
W. J. Hooker
Date:
20 November 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 4251:641
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-972

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
20 December 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 4251:642
Summary:

Discusses sending fossils and shells to Woodwardian Collection with Adam Sedgwick and a turtle from Harwich to the Royal College of Surgeons. Encloses a letter to be read and forwarded to ‘McBeath’.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-979

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
5 December 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add.7652.IE.14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-980

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
30 October 1843
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add. 7652.IE.60
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-981

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
3 November 1843
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IE.60a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-982

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
1 September 1845
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652. IE. 130
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-983

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
3 December 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IE.153
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1241

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
6 May 1849
Source of text:
DAR 145: 63 and Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2023)
Summary:

Describes cold water cure he has been taking for two months at J. M. Gully’s establishment.

Plans to go to BAAS meeting at Birmingham if health improves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1188F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 July 1848]
Source of text:
Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124
Summary:

Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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