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From:
Anna Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 60
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[24 Jan 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A3–4
Summary:
Sends specimens from Indian Ocean atolls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 February 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 64
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 March 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 65
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 July [1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A5–6
Summary:
Describes an orange tree with curious "horned" fruit; sends specimen. Asks if the horns represent "metamorphoses of some organ into the fruit orange".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ettwin Lumholtz
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 October 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 76
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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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
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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:
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
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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
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From:
Joseph Allen (Bishop of Ely)
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 April 1842
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Richard Whately
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 June 1842
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 371
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 Sept [1842]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A7
Summary:
CD gives JSH Fuegian paints and spears and a Pacific dolphin hook for his museum.
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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
R. G. Latham
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 September 1842
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 120
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 September 1842
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 224
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Charlesworth
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 November 1842
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 85a
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[2 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A8–10
Summary:
Tells how W. Kemp found the seeds of Atriplex, which Lindley sent to JSH for identification.
Asks about monstrous plant mentioned by Lindley [see 690].
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From:
Lord Braybrooke
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
25 September 1843
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 42 & 42(ii)
Summary:
Compliments JSH on his account of the excavation of tumulus at Ringham. Says he has not seen Cuscuta in local region but may have seen evidence of it in scorched appearance of Berkshire clover fields.
States that his wheat harvest is not as good as previous year, but less mildewed. Describes experiment of growing different varieties of wheat in his garden, undermined by rats gaining access to them. Has observed a field of mustard on one of his farms, farmer states that it is good food for sheep and partridges.
Comments on the importance of John Warne’s flax growing scheme and growth of a large quantity of flax on a single acre at Thaxted. Also comments favourably on Warne’s theory of feeding oxen in boxes.
Fears he will have few guests for the Saffron Walden Agricultural Society annual meeting but pleased that JSH will be in attendance along with Edward Everett, the American Ambassador. JSH to advocate cooperative agricultural experiments at the meeting.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[14 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A11–12
Summary:
CD has written to W. Kemp to ascertain what precautions he took in sowing his seeds. "It will be rather flat if you … pronounce the Atriplex to be merely a variety". Suggests sending plants to C. C. Babington.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[4 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A13–14
Summary:
Babington has reared a facsimile [of W. Kemp’s Atriplex] by sowing seeds of A. angustifolia. CD has advised Kemp not to publish since anyone would say it was more probable that the seeds of his specimens were in the soil, than that the ones he found had retained vitality. CD regrets this, as he has no doubt of the antiquity of the seeds.
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