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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 166
Summary:

On his 15th wedding anniversary JSH writes to CD wishing him happiness as great as JSH has had in his marriage, and adds some advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 167
Summary:

Writes to CD as "Brother Benedick" and sends hearty good wishes for health and happiness in marriage. They are sending a little silver candlestick for a wax taper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Herbert, dean of Manchester
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
5 Apr 1839
Source of text:
DAR 185: 63
Summary:

Replies to CD’s questions on plant hybridisation and laws of inheritance. Rejects predominant transmission of characters by established forms. Males show predominance, but congeniality of parents’ constitution to climate and soil more important. No correlation between hybridisation and variability, cultivation, and geographical distribution. Rejects reversion.

Describes experiments in Hippeastrum in which pollen from another species proved more fertile than plant’s own pollen.

Did not intend to say that crossing is inimical to fertility.

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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 14 Apr 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 63v
Summary:

[Note forwarding 503.]

Lord Fitzwilliam’s gardener does not believe in hybrid ferns.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[10 Nov 1839]
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 7127)
Summary:

Urges JSH to describe Galapagos species in a paper on the flora of the islands.

Has been interested in geographical distribution and would be interested to have a paper by JSH on the general character of flora of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia.

"I keep on steadily collecting every sort of fact which may throw light on the origin & variation of species."

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[24 Jan 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A3–4
Summary:

Sends specimens from Indian Ocean atolls.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 July [1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A5–6
Summary:

Describes an orange tree with curious "horned" fruit; sends specimen. Asks if the horns represent "metamorphoses of some organ into the fruit orange".

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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1840
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 236
Summary:

Would like further experimentation to confirm report about germination of wheat from Egyptian tombs. Sir G. Wilkinson may have been deceived by the Arabs.

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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1840
Source of text:
DAR 109: A86
Summary:

Reports on abortive anthers in flowers of thyme sent by CD.

Contributor:
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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1841
Source of text:
DAR 166: 176
Summary:

Reports observations on the behaviour of captive harvest mouse and dormouse. When descending sticks mouse uses its tail like a prehensile-tailed monkey.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Jan 1842]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD relates that Robert Brown is anxious to have [C. M.] Leman[n] elected librarian of the Linnean Society and urges JSH to come to vote for him. CD joins in the request.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 Sept [1842]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A7
Summary:

CD gives JSH Fuegian paints and spears and a Pacific dolphin hook for his museum.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[22 Jan 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on JSH’s botanical work with his parishioners. Lyell will be pleased that he has done some fossil botanical work.

Describes a Geological Society meeting about Edward Charlesworth’s complaints.

Contributor:
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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 Aug 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 282
Summary:

Calls CD’s attention to an article about William Herbert’s hybrid Narcissus.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[2 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A8–10
Summary:

Tells how W. Kemp found the seeds of Atriplex, which Lindley sent to JSH for identification.

Asks about monstrous plant mentioned by Lindley [see 690].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[before 7 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 7 October 1843, p. 694
Summary:

Has seen fields of clover near Down affected with clover dodder.

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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1843
Source of text:
DAR 50: A24–5
Summary:

Thinks W. Kemp’s specimens are all common varieties of living species of Atriplex.

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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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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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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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