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HENSLOW-325

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 August 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 187
Summary:

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Contributor:
Henslow 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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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