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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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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
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
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
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
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