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DCP-LETT-105

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser.2):4–5
Summary:

JSH has been asked by Peacock to recommend a naturalist as companion to Capt. FitzRoy on Beagle voyage. CD the best qualified person; not a finished naturalist but amply qualified for collecting, observing, and noting.

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DCP-LETT-143

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1831
Source of text:
DAR 204: 108
Summary:

Gives CD directions for sending him specimens from Beagle.

Writes of Cambridge politics.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-150

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1831
Source of text:
DAR 204: 109
Summary:

Is sending plates for R. T. Lowe’s paper [Trans. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 4 (1833): 1–70].

Adds advice on working the surd.

Agrees with CD that Beagle voyage would have been wrong for Jenyns, but assures him he (CD) is the right man. Warns CD against his "foible" of taking offence at rudeness or ungentlemanlike behaviour.

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