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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
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