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HENSLOW-634

From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 February 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 7
Summary:

Discusses advice given to JSH on nux vomica and advice given to Bowerbank by JSH on leech cocoons. Compliments Henslow on his comparative kindness. Sends waste prints for JSH and the Ipswich Museum.

Discusses campaign to secure a comfortable position with a government pension for an associate, possibly Robert Edmond Grant.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-635

From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 September 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 8
Summary:

Asks JSH about the situation regarding George Ransome, the first Honorary Secretary of the Ipswich Museum. Under his tenure, which ended in 1852, the Museum got into debt and Ransome failed to keep others informed. As President, JSH was obliged seek Ransome’s resignation and subsequently the Museum was financially supported by the Ipswich Corporation.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-636

From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 November 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 9
Summary:

Discusses plan to get a government pension for the Berwick-upon-Tweed naturalist George Johnston and asks JSH for a testimonial. Explains that Johnston has given away earnings to his brother and others in need.

Mentions that he has not heard from their ‘lost Friend’, this is probably George Ransome, who left his position as Honorary Secretary of the Ipswich Museum after incurring debts.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-667

From:
C. E. Broome
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 June 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 40
Summary:

Thanks JSH for invitation to visit but cannot say if able to do so. Asks for JSH to send him any fungi of interest. Invites JSH to visit him at Elmhurst, near Batheaston, and comments that Leonard Jenyns also lives in the area.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-677

From:
F. J. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 August 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 50
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-363

From:
William Clark
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 March 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177:92
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1472A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester
Date:
30 Jan [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 19 photocopy; John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 56)
Summary:

The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1474

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
24 [Feb 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 3
Summary:

Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Apr 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 107: 66–7
Summary:

Questions on variation in nature: taxa varying in one region but not another. Variation between vs within species. Rarity of variation in important organs within a species. G. R. Waterhouse’s views on variation in highly developed organs, which CD relates to variation in rudimentary organs.

Asks for cases of obligate self-fertilising plants.

[CD annotation proposes using the Steudel Nomenclator botanicus (1821–4) to determine if variable species occur in genera with many species.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1486

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
27 Aug [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 4
Summary:

Thanks for his letter; hopes he is managing all right [at Rugby?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1488

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
21 Oct [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 17
Summary:

Informs JW of his intention to sell his N. W. Railway shares.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Johnston
Date:
23 Nov 1852
Source of text:
DAR 146: 6
Summary:

Recommends GJ for Government pension.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0372

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[February 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0373

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. March 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0374

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. March 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0375

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[15 July? 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0376

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[after 18 August 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0377

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[23 November 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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HENSLOW-362

From:
H. T. De la Beche
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 February 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 132
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-978

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
27 November 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IIX.36e
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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