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From:
George Peacock
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library DAR 97: B1–3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Lauderdale Ramsay
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 218
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
E. B. Ramsay
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 219
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[6 or 13] Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97: B1–3
Summary:
GP has been asked to recommend a naturalist to sail with Capt. Robert FitzRoy to Tierra del Fuego and the South Sea Islands. If Leonard Jenyns is not available, whom would JSH recommend?
P.S. Urges JHS not to lose this opportunity to have collections made for "our museum".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Fred Calvert
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 220
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
E. B. Ramsay
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 222
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
William Whewell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 221
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Green
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 223
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
E. B. Ramsay
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
Aug 16 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 224
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
George Selby Thomson
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 225
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Fred Calvert
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 226
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser.2):4–5
Summary:
JSH has been asked by Peacock to recommend a naturalist as companion to Capt. FitzRoy on Beagle voyage. CD the best qualified person; not a finished naturalist but amply qualified for collecting, observing, and noting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 26 Aug 1831]
Source of text:
DAR 97 (ser.2): 11–13
Summary:
Details about FitzRoy and proposed voyage of Beagle. CD invited to go on the voyage as naturalist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
W. Worsley
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 227
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
31 Aug [1831]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 1; DAR 97: B10
Summary:
CD asks his father to consider the offer of the Beagle voyage once more. He encloses his list of RWD’s objections and Josiah Wedgwood’s responses [see 109]. Asks his father to give him a decided answer: if "no" he will never again mention the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser.2): 6–8
Summary:
States his views on each of RWD’s objections to the Beagle venture. JW’s overall position is favourable to CD’s acceptance of the offer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
