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DCP-LETT-1816

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A106–A107
Summary:

Thanks for JSH’s letter, which has been of real use.

Complains of the trouble caused by reports to Government required of Benefit Clubs.

Interested in case of Canada geese with seed in crop, because means of distribution is now a great hobby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1823

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
22 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A108–A109
Summary:

Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1903

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 June [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A110–11
Summary:

Sends a cultivated specimen of Myosotis (first generation) grown from seed sent by JSH. Asks for a tuft of flower.

Hopes JSH will publish a book on teaching botany, because he has no idea how to begin with his children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1936

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1856
Source of text:
DAR 166: 178
Summary:

One plant in self-sown patch of Aegilops has assumed a triticoidal character; JSH feels it may be an example of Aegilops passing to wheat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1939

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
6 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A55–A56
Summary:

Reports on results of forcing and other attempts to produce variations in plants. Asks for some seeds.

Is correcting his Linnean Society paper ["On the action of sea-water", Collected papers 1: 264–71].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2006

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[after 6 Dec 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A115
Summary:

He is steadily and very hard at work on "Variation" [Natural selection] and finds the whole subject "deeply interesting but horribly perplexed".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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