To J. S. Henslow [10 November 1839]
Summary
Urges JSH to describe Galapagos species in a paper on the flora of the islands.
Has been interested in geographical distribution and would be interested to have a paper by JSH on the general character of flora of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia.
"I keep on steadily collecting every sort of fact which may throw light on the origin & variation of species."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [10 Nov 1839] |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 7127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-543 |
To J. S. Henslow 10 November [1855]
Summary
Thanks for seeds. Feels "almost foiled" in his experiments on sea transport – has found few plants that float after more than a week’s immersion.
Sends a list of queries [see 1779] on hollyhocks to put to growers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A103–A105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1778 |
To J. S. Henslow 14 May [1860]
Summary
Thanks JSH for his defence [see 2794].
He is not hurt for long by what his attackers say. His conclusions were arrived at after long study. He has certainly erred, but not so much as "Sedgwick and Co." think.
Asks JSH to send names of plants that vary greatly in length of pistil.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 14 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A70–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2801 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 May 1860 . Henslow had asked Hooker to send it on to CD. Adam Sedgwick’s paper criticising Origin was not published in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , but a report of its contents was given in the Cambridge Chronicle , 19 May 1860, pp. 4–5, and in the Literary Gazette , 12 …
To J. S. Henslow 17 May [1860]
Summary
Sends characters by which he can divide all primroses and cowslips into what he suspects will be male and female plants. Believes these forms are first step in formation of a dioecious plant.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 17 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A72–3, A116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2805 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 May 1860, p. 582, included a report on Adam Sedgwick’s and William Clark’s remarks about Origin at the Cambridge Philosophical Society meeting on 7 May 1860. See letter to J. S. Henslow, 14 May [1860] . In CD’s paper on the dimorphic condition of Primula , read on 21 November 1861, the measurements were changed to 10- …
To J. S. Henslow 20 November [1849]
Summary
Has had his portrait taken;
is anxious about scarlet fever among his children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1849] |
| Classmark: | Princeton University Library (General MSS) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1272 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 s . 6 d . This probably refers to the lithograph portrait by Thomas Herbert Maguire for the Ipswich Museum portraits commissioned by George Ransome . The Darwin family Bible at Down House, which lists many of the illnesses in the family, records that Anne, Henrietta, and Elizabeth had scarlet fever in 1849. Emma Darwin noted in her diary that on 12 …
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