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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[27 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Has been unwell. Publication of two numbers [of Zoology] has been delayed. Thought first Fish number good.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
5 Apr [1840]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Health is improved, but would do anything to get strong again. Is consulting his father; will return to London soon to see B. W. Hawkins.

Will send MS [of Fish, no. 2] to the printer, and be there when LJ comes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 30 Mar 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 279
Summary:

LJ has had a letter from R. T. Lowe in Madeira who thinks Scorpaena histrio, a species from Galapagos described in no. 1 [of Fish], is the same as the one in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. LJ does not think it is possible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
24 June [1841]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Doctors predict it will take years for CD’s constitution to recover.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[Nov 1841]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Details regarding volume on Fish.

Sends notes on Diodon.

Must give up attending Geological Society evening meetings; knocks him up.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[13? Jan 1842]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is pleased with LJ’s introduction [to Fish]. He rejoices that he persuaded LJ to undertake this work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 January 1842
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 186
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[May–Sept 1842]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Glad to hear that LJ will repeat his notes to Gilbert White’s [Natural history of] Selborne [1843] in a separate work.

Critical of G. R. Gray’s attaching his own name to Furnarius cunicularius [in Birds, pp. 65–6]. Strickland’s nomenclature laws are needed to check egoism.

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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
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
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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 January 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 188
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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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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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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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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