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DCP-LETT-171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 May & 16 June 1832
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 12 DAR/1/1/12)
Summary:

His first letter to JSH since December. Recounts his seasickness, geologising and marine collecting at St Jago [Santiago, Cape Verde Is.]; his first tropical forest. Collecting small insects from the tropics. His Welsh trip with Sedgwick has been extremely valuable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[23 July –] 15 Aug [1832]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 13 DAR/1/1/13)
Summary:

Specimens being sent off. Describes his collection of rocks, plants, and insects. Some particularly interesting specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[c. 26 Oct –] 24 Nov [1832]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 14 DAR/1/1/14)
Summary:

A French collector [Alcide d’Orbigny] has been at the Rio Negro and will probably have "taken the cream". CD’s luck with fossil bones, among them a large extinct armadillo-like animal. Describes some birds, toads, Crustacea, and other marine specimens. Nearly all plants flowering at Bahia Blanca were collected. Is sending two large casks of fossil bones by packet.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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