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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2264

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

Returns MS [of "Variation of species"]; several facts were new to him, especially interested in wagtails.

Wishes he could swallow Florent Prévost on sparrows ["Du régime alimentaire des oiseaux", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 46 (1858): 136–8].

LJ’s facts seem to bear out CD’s conclusion that secondary sexual characters were most variable of all.

Explains how he intends to deal with variation, and general facts in natural history in the light of species theory. Can only afford one chapter on variation in nature. It seems more important to make out variation in domestic animals.

Asks for facts on birds’ nests for his chapter on instincts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-514

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 November 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 193
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-520

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 February 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 194
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-603

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 March 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 203
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-525

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 June 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 195
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-529

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 July 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 196
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2528

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
13 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Scriptorium (dealers) (1981)
Summary:

Invites criticisms of his book [Origin] which is "only an abstract & very much condensed". Knows LJ will not agree with the lengths to which CD goes. It took long years to convert CD, but he cannot persuade himself "that a theory which explains … several large classes of facts, can be wholly wrong".

Hopes to publish his full MS if he ever gets strong enough.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-537

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 November 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 197
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-542

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
31 December 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 198
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2637A

From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1860
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 95–103)
Summary:

Has read Origin and considers it one of the most valuable contributions to present-day natural history. Believes, however, that there are difficulties in the extensive generalisation that all taxonomic groups are related by descent. Does not understand how Genesis is to be read unless at least the human species was created independently of other animals. Cannot bring himself to the idea that man’s reasoning and moral sense could have been obtained from "irrational progenitors": the "Divine Image" is the unsurmountable distinction between man and brutes. [See 2644.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
7 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Thanks LJ for his letter on Origin. Finds LJ agrees with him more than CD had expected.

Discusses problems of geological record, single primordial form, and man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-291

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
26 January 1860
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3029
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-551

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 199
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-560

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 June 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 200
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-563

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 July 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 201
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-569

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 202
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3355

From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1861
Source of text:
DAR 168: 56
Summary:

Thanks CD for his contribution to the memoir of Henslow [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3406

From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 55
Summary:

Sends proof-sheets of CD’s contribution to LJ’s Memoir of Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3410

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
24 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

CD has sent to printer proofs of his contribution to Memoir of Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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