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From:
George Smith Kenrick
To:
William Kemp
Date:
11 Feb 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/8)
Summary:
Thanks for sending the publication the Galashiels Weekly Journal.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
J. E. Bowman
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 March 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 119
Summary:
Apologises that JSH has not been able to see fossil spike in London, potentially a large Lycopodium, because it cannot be transported due to fragility. Provides a description and drawing of it.
Discusses fossil trees found in his local area and specimens sent to the Geological Society and Robert Brown, together with a paper Bowman has written on them. States that he has found proof of the solid and subsequently hollowed state of the trees from corresponding bands of soft shale. Provides JSH with a brief description and says full details will be given when whole paper is published. States that they give decisive proof of growth where they were found, that they have overturned the scepticism of geologists including John Phillips and Louis Agassiz, and that a miniature model is being made of them.
Discusses illustrations of the internal structure of Sigillaria by Alexandre Brongniart and his wish to see them when published. Also discusses previous drawings of Sigillaria with leaves by Brongniart and W. Conway. Passes on message from Conway for Fossil Flora to send someone to do drawings of Bristol fossil collection.
Contributor:
Henslow 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
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1841
Source of text:
DAR 166: 176
Summary:
Reports observations on the behaviour of captive harvest mouse and dormouse. When descending sticks mouse uses its tail like a prehensile-tailed monkey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Lockhart
To:
James McGregor
Date:
4 May 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/6)
Summary:
Returns Mr Kemp’s paper on the morrains of the Tweed and the Gala.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
[1–23 July 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 39
Summary:
Tells WAL where specimen of Cynoglossum sylvaticum may be seen growing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[1 July 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 16
Summary:
Family news. Mainly concerned about Doddy’s [W. E. Darwin’s] health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3 July 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 17
Summary:
The happy family life at Shrewsbury. CD is looking so well his father would not have known there was anything the matter with him. The year’s accounts come to £1380.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 16 July 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A1–2
Summary:
Regrets not seeing CD before leaving on trip [to the U. S.]. CD’s move from London will be a privation for CL.
Returns charts on coral reefs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
5 December 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add.7652.IE.14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
John Abberley; Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1841
Source of text:
DAR 162: 78
Summary:
The family gardener reports on seeds he has gathered. RWD transmits the letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
S. P. Woodward
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 November 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 359
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Younger
To:
William Kemp
Date:
25 Nov 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/12)
Summary:
Has seen WK’s article in the Kelso Chronicle about Glacier Theory.
Would like to see Bedshiel Kaimes and Dogden Moss with WK.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
James Inglis Thackery
To:
John Kemp
Date:
28 Nov 1841 – c. 1842
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/7)
Summary:
Has been away so has not seen article in Kelso Chronicle.
Suggests walking from Kelso to Greenlaw to see James Cunningham, surveyor, and investigate the Lammermuir Hills.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
David Thomas Ansted
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 Dec 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 1a
Summary:
Asks JSH to make contact with Joseph Jukes, ahead of his 1842 expedition to New Guinea, the Torres Straits and Australia, in order to increase his understanding of botany.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project