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HENSLOW-657

From:
H. J. H. Bond
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 November 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 30
Summary:

Writes to assure JSH that all students taking the Cambridge medical examination should have already passed the botany examination, so his attendance is not necessary.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-519

From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 February 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-523

From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 March 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 79
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-532

From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 August 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 78
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-536

From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 October 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 77
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-581

From:
Edward Charlesworth
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 July 1859?
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 88
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-530

From:
Edward Charlesworth
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 July 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 87(i) & (ii)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-540

From:
E. Coke
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 December 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 96
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
10 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A120–A121
Summary:

Thanks JSH for specimens. Comments on the structure of a hornet comb and asks JSH to obtain some fresh combs for him and to make observations for him. He is greatly interested in "these wondrous architectural instincts".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2401

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 2
Summary:

At work on abstract.

Continues argument on effectiveness of dispersal. Has doubts about relationship of isolation to highness of Australian flora. Questions about survival of European plants introduced in Australia.

CD receives the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2403

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 3
Summary:

Wallace has written and is well satisfied with the joint presentation.

CD requests some facts to make case in his abstract for former glacial action in Himalayas.

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DCP-LETT-2406

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 4
Summary:

CD not convinced that naturalisation of European plants abroad is strictly dependent on creation by agriculture of disturbed ground.

More than half through his chapter on geographical distribution.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2408

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[6 Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 26 (EH 88206475)
Summary:

JL’s brother’s accident.

Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2411

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
9 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 27 (EH 88206476)
Summary:

CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2414

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 35
Summary:

Discusses events at Moor Park and domestic matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2420

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 [Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 37
Summary:

Writes about their new billiard table.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2422

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 5
Summary:

Has finished geographical distribution chapter and asks JDH to read it.

Is it just to say embryological characters are of high importance in plant classification?

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DCP-LETT-2424

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 6
Summary:

Will read JDH’s printers’ slips on variation.

CD has been so ill, he wonders whether he will get his book done, though so nearly completed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
8 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478)
Summary:

Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2429

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 7
Summary:

Sends MS [of Origin] on geographical distribution. Wants JDH to correct facts and say what he most vehemently objects to.

Has received JDH’s note on plant embryology.

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