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From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 November 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library RGO6(371)
Summary:

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From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 June 1851
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

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From:
Joseph Allen (Bishop of Ely)
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 July 1837
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

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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:

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From:
J. T. Allen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 March 1826
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8339:125
Summary:

Discusses inability to vote for the University as he and his brother have taken their names off the Boards; he has votes for Palmerston only.

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From:
Richard Almack
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 January 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 2
Summary:

Discusses appointment of new trustees for JSH’s chantry lands. List of current trustees enclosed with known deaths noted.

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From:
David Thomas Ansted
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 December 1839
Source of text:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
Summary:

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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.

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From:
G. A. W. Arnott
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 March 1830
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 137
Summary:

Asks whether JSH can send specimens of some of the rarer plants found in the Cambridge region. Invites him to Edinburgh and offers access to duplicates.

Discusses JSH’s description of the leaves of Malaxis paludosa and states that he made the same description at an earlier date but did not publish it. Casts doubt on the observation that they are parasitic.

Requests British specimens of Malaxis paludosa and offers JSH a Swiss specimen.

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From:
G. A. W. Arnott
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 May 1830
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 143
Summary:

Discusses planned trip to the Scottish Highlands with William Jackson Hooker and his hopes to explore in Breadalbane area.

Responds to JSH’s Salix request list, together with other plant requests, and asks for specimens. Discusses observations of Salix fragilis and Russelliana in the Edinburgh region.

Responds to JSH’s offer of plant specimens. Provides a list of species, stating that it only covers Cambridgeshire deficiencies in his British specimen collection.

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From:
G. A. W. Arnott
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 April 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 196
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of package of plant specimens from JSH and explains that he has not had time to add them to the Herbarium.

Has been working on a botany paper for new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. After this, working with William Jackson Hooker on The Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage.

Making plans to move to property in Kinrossshire, which is being extended to contain library and plants. Plans to provide JSH with dried willow specimens with names from Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

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From:
John Atkinson
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 August 1827
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 62
Summary:

Explains serious illness as reason for lack of scientific activity. Asks JSH for a list of required plants and plans to find specimens from Yorkshire. Requests rare orchid specimens from Cambridge region.

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From:
J. J. Audubon
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 May 1830
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 142
Summary:

Has just returned to England from America and been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Acknowledges receipt of money in return for works delivered to JSH.

Has completed 50 drawings in America as improvements on The Birds of America and asks JSH for help with increasing subscriptions. Comments on animal specimens.

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From:
J. J. Audubon
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
April 28 1831
Source of text:
British Library Cup.510 1943
Summary:

Sends JSH copy of his Ornithological Biographies and asks about sending copies to Cambridge for sale. Comments on the binding of The Birds of America. Mentions forthcoming trip to America.

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From:
J. J. Audubon
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
January 30 1835
Source of text:
British Library Cup.510 1943
Summary:

Sends JSH a copy of second volume of Ornithological Biographies; discusses progress on third vols of that work and The Birds of America.

Asks if a museum in Cambridge might be interested in purchasing North American mounted birds from an associate in Nova Scotia. Asks if JSH knows anyone with a collection of bird eggs for species comparison.

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From:
J. J. Audubon
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
January 13 1836
Source of text:
British Library Cup.510 1943
Summary:

Sends JSH a copy of third volume of Ornithological Biographies. Asks why G. N. Granville has discontinued patronage of The Birds of America as it is nearing completion.

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From:
J. J. Audubon
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 February 1836
Source of text:
Tulane University Kuntz Collection 600-36-29
Summary:

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From:
J. J. Audubon
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 April 1836
Source of text:
Tulane University Kuntz Collection 600-36-29
Summary:

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From:
William John Bankes
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 September 1823
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library La.II.423/13
Summary:

Encloses specimens and invites JSH to view the herbarium at Soughton Hall created by his great-grandfather, John Wynne.

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From:
William Baxter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 February 1829
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 105
Summary:

Baxter sends a copy of part two of Stirpes Cryptogamae Oxoniensis and also sends a prospectus for forthcoming work by Gerard Edwards Smith on the botany of southern Kent.

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