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DCP-LETT-705

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[14 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A11–12
Summary:

CD has written to W. Kemp to ascertain what precautions he took in sowing his seeds. "It will be rather flat if you … pronounce the Atriplex to be merely a variety". Suggests sending plants to C. C. Babington.

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DCP-LETT-707

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1843
Source of text:
DAR 50: A26–7
Summary:

Regards [W. Kemp’s] plant as clearly only Atriplex patula, though with "an unusual habit".

Adds report on success of his Roman tomb exhibit.

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DCP-LETT-712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[4 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A13–14
Summary:

Babington has reared a facsimile [of W. Kemp’s Atriplex] by sowing seeds of A. angustifolia. CD has advised Kemp not to publish since anyone would say it was more probable that the seeds of his specimens were in the soil, than that the ones he found had retained vitality. CD regrets this, as he has no doubt of the antiquity of the seeds.

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DCP-LETT-765

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[25 July 1844]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection)
Summary:

Sends a specimen of rusty wheat from the banks of the Plata.

Asks for bits of peat he collected

and a bit of the paint used by Fuegians to colour themselves.

He will send these to C. G. Ehrenberg for analysis.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-868

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 May [1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Is at work on second edition of Journal of researches.

Hopes to finish geology of the Beagle by autumn.

Hooker gives "a wonderful account" of Galapagos plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
25 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 145: 59
Summary:

CD has bought a farm in Lincolnshire. Criticises primogeniture and stamp laws on land purchase.

Announces birth of G. H. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-921

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
28 Oct [1845]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Comments on potato disease and its effects on the poor.

Describes visit to his Lincolnshire farm,

to York where he discussed hybrids with the Dean of Manchester [William Herbert],

his meeting with Charles Waterton, and his delight with Chatsworth.

Disappointed at Hooker’s failure to receive the Edinburgh chair; believes JDH will make a great botanist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001622

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
15 July 1845
Source of text:
MM/21/62, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10428

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.309
Summary:

Recommends a method for destroying wasps' nests. Refers him to the Gardener's Chronicle for information on flowering Cape bulbs. Has no idea where he can obtain deodar seeds. Would like to see his paper on the influence of light on vegetable colors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10429

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.310
Summary:

Sending a paper in which he recommends JH's Prelim. Discourse; it is addressed chiefly to mechanics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10430

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.311
Summary:

Received his letter just as he was about to lecture. Regarding the Institution, there are five or six telescopes in use and G. B. Airy is to deliver lectures, so JH's work may be useful.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10431

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.312
Summary:

Well-wishers of the Ipswich Museum hope to raise a fund for a lithograph portrait of G. Ransome; wonders if JH is interested in becoming a subscriber. Richard Owen is to deliver a lecture at the anniversary meeting next month.

Contributor:
John Herschel 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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