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DCP-LETT-1167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1 Apr 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A17
Summary:

Thanks JSH for his address [Address delivered in the Ipswich Museum on 9th March 1848]. Questions a sentence which implies that only the practical use of a scientific discovery makes it worth while. The instinct for truth justifies science without any practical results. Cites his work on cirripedes.

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DCP-LETT-1189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
2 July [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A18–A20
Summary:

Criticises lecturing system in education and emphasis on classics. Has forgotten all his classical knowledge.

Asks JSH’s help in naming cirripedes, on which he is working. Believes he has made "some very curious points".

Expects a sixth child [Francis] in August.

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DCP-LETT-1188F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 July 1848]
Source of text:
Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124
Summary:

Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

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