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DCP-LETT-629

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[9 May 1842]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Is sending fish skins and bottles off to Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Fish numbers [of Zoology], now finished, give CD satisfaction when he doubts whether he ought to have applied for Government money.

Wishes Thomas Bell would finish his part [Reptiles].

CD has just corrected last page of index of Coral reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-782

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
12 Oct [1844]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Asks whether LJ can throw light on this subject: "What are the checks and what the periods of life by which the increase of any given species is limited?" CD has been driven to conclude that species are mutable; allied species are co-descendants from common stocks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-793

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
25 [Nov 1844]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

On checks to increase of species and the observations which led him to regard species as mutable in form. Would welcome "at some future time" LJ’s criticism of the "sketch" of his conclusions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-828

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
14 Feb [1845]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Discusses checks on growth of species population; use of term "mutation" in his species theory. His belief in species mutability.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[14 or 21] Aug 1846
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Looks forward to LJ’s volume [Observations in natural history (1846)].

Observations on what the world would call trifling points in natural history are always very interesting to him. Deplores their absence in foreign periodicals.

Is slaving away to finish S. American geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1009

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
17 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Comments on LJ’s Observations [in natural history (1846)].

Discusses variation among British birds, and the conflicting treatment of bird species by C. W. L. Gloger and C. L. Brehm.

Describes collecting incident of his student days involving Carabus.

Mentions squirrels eating insects.

Astonished to hear of terrestrial Planaria.

Comments on BAAS meeting in Southampton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1055

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
21 [Jan 1847]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of [The naturalist’s pocket] almanack edited by LJ. Suggests some improvements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-238

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
25 January 1847
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3133
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-249

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
28 July 1849
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3022
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-250

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
22 August 1849
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3023
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-258

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
10 August 1851
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3024
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-260

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
November 1851
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 1012
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-266

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
24 October 1853
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3025
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-267

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
7 November 1853
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3026
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-279

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
25 July 1856
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3027
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-284

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
12 June 1857
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3028
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-743

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
12 June 1857
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3028
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2251

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
1 Apr [1858]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Thanks LJ for his book [Observations in meteorology (1858)].

CD has been working on his species book [Natural selection].

Has become dreadfully heterodox on immutability of species.

His work on pigeons: variation under domestication throws the greatest light on variation in a state of nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
9 Apr [1858]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Asks LJ to lend him a copy of his paper ["Variation of species", Rep. BAAS 26 (1856): 101–5] and any notes or references he has. Although CD has a large accumulation of facts, it is impossible to see and consider too many.

His health is poor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2259

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
18 Apr [1858]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Thanks LJ for his MS [of "Variation of species", Rep. BAAS 26 (1856): 101–5].

Will read it at his hydropathic establishment [Moor Park], where he is going for a rest.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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