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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:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 January 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 5
Summary:
Arranges to make a daguerreotype of JSH. Discusses beaver remains being sent to him by JSH and that a turtle sent by JSH to the Royal College of Surgeons has been received by Owen and will be returned in due course.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 June 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 4
Summary:
Discusses forthcoming trip to Isle of Wight, states that he will help JSH with Ipswich Museum on his return.
Shelves portrait scheme due to Thomas Herbert Maguire project of 60 scientific portraits, commissioned by George Ransome for the foundation of the Ipswich Museum. Explains the causes of fine dust that appears on daguerreotypes and that his portrait of JSH in this medium is admired.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A7–A8
Summary:
Writes a detailed account of his treatment at J. M. Gully’s hydropathy establishment at Malvern.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Mar 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 113
Summary:
CD’s health and his father’s death have delayed his answer. Describes J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
JDH’s Galapagos papers [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] have excellent discussion of geographical distribution, but why no general treatment of affinities?
CD’s views on clay-slate laminae.
Turmoil in Royal Society between naturalists and physicists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 114
Summary:
Does not recommend that JDH publish extracts of his letters from India in the Athenæum.
CD criticises JDH’s observations on glacial deposits in Himalayas as insufficiently clear and detailed.
CD will live to finish barnacles and make a fool of himself over species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
6 May 1849
Source of text:
DAR 145: 63 and Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2023)
Summary:
Describes cold water cure he has been taking for two months at J. M. Gully’s establishment.
Plans to go to BAAS meeting at Birmingham if health improves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[24 June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 143
Summary:
Declines to canvass for Richard King.
Water-cure has benefited health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A92–A95
Summary:
Describes the Birmingham meeting [1849] of BAAS.
His health is poor. Continues with water-cure with considerable benefit.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[7 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A89–A90
Summary:
Thanks JSH for information and suggestions on benefit clubs,
and for a shipment of fossil cirripedes.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[before 12 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A91
Summary:
J. B. Innes is greatly obliged for JSH’s letter. JSH’s observation of chalk flints strikes CD as "very curious".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Oct 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 116
Summary:
CD thinks great dam across Yangma valley is a lateral glacial moraine.
Reports on Birmingham BAAS meeting.
Details of water-cure.
Barnacles becoming tedious; careful description shows slight differences constitute varieties, not species.
Lamination of gneiss.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:
[24 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 332
Summary:
Asks MEL to translate page of paper by Sven Lovén ["Ny art af Cirripedia", Ofvers. K. Vetensk. Acad. Forh. Stockholm 1 (1844): 192–4]. CD is "dreadfully interested" in the barnacles [Alepas squalicola] described.
Hopes Charles Lyell’s "craters of Denudation" prosper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 146
Summary:
On domestication of pigeons and hybrid geese.
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From:
Francis K. Eagle
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 October 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 135
Summary:
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From:
Francis K. Eagle
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 November 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 136
Summary:
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Contributor:
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
24 November 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library RGO6(371)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
Sept 24 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 209
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 August 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 225
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 April 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 248
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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