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DCP-LETT-1188F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 July 1848]
Source of text:
Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124
Summary:

Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10430

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.311
Summary:

Received his letter just as he was about to lecture. Regarding the Institution, there are five or six telescopes in use and G. B. Airy is to deliver lectures, so JH's work may be useful.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10431

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.312
Summary:

Well-wishers of the Ipswich Museum hope to raise a fund for a lithograph portrait of G. Ransome; wonders if JH is interested in becoming a subscriber. Richard Owen is to deliver a lecture at the anniversary meeting next month.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1706

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1855
Source of text:
DAR 166: 177
Summary:

Red and white campions: JSH regards them as races, not species; a flesh-coloured intermediate exists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1936

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1856
Source of text:
DAR 166: 178
Summary:

One plant in self-sown patch of Aegilops has assumed a triticoidal character; JSH feels it may be an example of Aegilops passing to wheat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2750

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1860
Source of text:
DAR 166.1:180 [diagram here]
Summary:

Sketch and description of a [wasp’s] nest from Cuba. [Notes by CD on wasps’ nests and comb-building habits of hive-bees.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2783

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1860
Source of text:
DAR 186: 47
Summary:

Reports to CD on what he has found out about Elodea growing near Cambridge.

Sedgwick is speaking at [Cambridge] Philosophical Society on CD’s "supposed errors" [Camb. Herald & Huntingdonshire Gaz. 19 May 1860, pp. 3–4].

JSH wonders how Owen can be so savage toward CD’s views when his own are "to a certain extent of the same character".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2794

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 May 1860
Source of text:
MS Add. 9537/2
Summary:

Describes Sedgwick’s attack on CD’s views [at Cambridge Philosophical Society] and his own defence, though he believes CD has pressed his hypothesis too far.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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