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HENSLOW-297

From:
Lord Braybrooke
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
31 January 1832
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 41
Summary:

Has forwarded JSH letter to a Mr Blackie in anticipation of him disproving own theories. Has heard Blackie is about to leave Thomas Coke’s service. Mentions that Cole, in a British Museum MS, has written of Sambucus ebulus growing on the Bartlow Hills.

Gives notes on dimension of two trees planted at his Audley End Estate, a Lebanon cedar and an oak.

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HENSLOW-1052

From:
Lord Braybrooke
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 February 1832
Source of text:
New York Public Library Pforz MS(MISC0381
Summary:

Writes concerning the excavation of mammoth remains and plans JSH visit to see them, potentially with Adam Sedgwick but probably not William Whewell. Gives a description of a tusk and other remains in their present state of excavation. States that similar remains in the same stratum of gravel nearby have been destroyed by labourers. Encloses a sketch of the tusk.

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HENSLOW-1118

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 February 1832
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library B L981
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 May & 16 June 1832
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 12 DAR/1/1/12)
Summary:

His first letter to JSH since December. Recounts his seasickness, geologising and marine collecting at St Jago [Santiago, Cape Verde Is.]; his first tropical forest. Collecting small insects from the tropics. His Welsh trip with Sedgwick has been extremely valuable.

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HENSLOW-298

From:
George Johnston
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 May 1832
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 212
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[23 July –] 15 Aug [1832]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 13 DAR/1/1/13)
Summary:

Specimens being sent off. Describes his collection of rocks, plants, and insects. Some particularly interesting specimens.

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HENSLOW-962

From:
William Whewell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 July 1832
Source of text:
Science Museum MS 1100
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1067

From:
George Johnston
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 October 1832
Source of text:
Christ's College Library, Cambridge Tracts 0.12.12
Summary:

No summary available.

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Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1170

From:
E. B. Ramsay
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 October 1832
Source of text:
The Huntington Library mssHM 70387
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[c. 26 Oct –] 24 Nov [1832]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 14 DAR/1/1/14)
Summary:

A French collector [Alcide d’Orbigny] has been at the Rio Negro and will probably have "taken the cream". CD’s luck with fossil bones, among them a large extinct armadillo-like animal. Describes some birds, toads, Crustacea, and other marine specimens. Nearly all plants flowering at Bahia Blanca were collected. Is sending two large casks of fossil bones by packet.

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HENSLOW-299

From:
William Buckland
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 December 1832
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 53
Summary:

No summary available.

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Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-304

From:
William Buckland
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 January 1833
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177:54
Summary:

No summary available.

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Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-681

From:
William Buckland
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 January 1833
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 54
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-198

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.

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HENSLOW-1070

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.

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HENSLOW-1071

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

DCP-LETT-199

From:
Robert Waring Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
1 Feb 1833
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 16 DAR/1/1/16)
Summary:

Send their thanks to JSH for allowing them to see the two letters, one written ten days later than any they have received.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-204

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.

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HENSLOW-1024

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

DCP-LETT-210

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.

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