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DCP-LETT-2264

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[28 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Returns MS [of "Variation of species"]; several facts were new to him, especially interested in wagtails.

Wishes he could swallow Florent Prévost on sparrows ["Du régime alimentaire des oiseaux", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 46 (1858): 136–8].

LJ’s facts seem to bear out CD’s conclusion that secondary sexual characters were most variable of all.

Explains how he intends to deal with variation, and general facts in natural history in the light of species theory. Can only afford one chapter on variation in nature. It seems more important to make out variation in domestic animals.

Asks for facts on birds’ nests for his chapter on instincts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2528

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
13 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Scriptorium (dealers) (1981)
Summary:

Invites criticisms of his book [Origin] which is "only an abstract & very much condensed". Knows LJ will not agree with the lengths to which CD goes. It took long years to convert CD, but he cannot persuade himself "that a theory which explains … several large classes of facts, can be wholly wrong".

Hopes to publish his full MS if he ever gets strong enough.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
7 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Thanks LJ for his letter on Origin. Finds LJ agrees with him more than CD had expected.

Discusses problems of geological record, single primordial form, and man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-291

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
26 January 1860
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3029
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3410

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
24 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

CD has sent to printer proofs of his contribution to Memoir of Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3569

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
24 May [1862]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Thanks LJ for Memoir of Henslow; thinks it will be invaluable as an example to other clergymen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5911

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
22 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Asks LJ which British birds are polygamous. His query relates to the possession by the male of secondary sexual characters.

CD is also interested in the numerical proportion of the sexes in birds.

Asks about the use of the horns in male lamellicorn or coprophagous beetles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5957

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
29 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Thanks LJ for his useful facts. Will "look to" the reference about the nightingale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8863

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
17 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (LET3016)
Summary:

Thanks LB for his essay on local biology.

CD with much care and discomfort is now able to work a few hours almost every day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10891

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
13 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (L16163.017b)
Summary:

CD doubts that he will be able to do much more that is new, but cannot bear idleness. Has great amount of material on variation under nature, but so much has been published since the appearance of the Origin that he doubts he has the power of mind to render the mass into a digested whole.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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