From George Henslow 19 June 1866
Summary
Has altered paper according to CD’s comments.
Returns books.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5126 |
From George Henslow [18–30 March 1866]
Summary
Cannot come to Down on weekend because of teaching duties.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18–30 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5037 |
From George Henslow 17 March [1866]
Summary
Forgot to thank CD for his praise of tendril paper [see 4944].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5036 |
From George Henslow 18 May 1866
Summary
Has written his Naudin–hybridism article [Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13]. Would like CD to criticise proofs.
Will return books borrowed from CD.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5095 |
From George Henslow 11 June [1866]
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On hybridization among plants", Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13].
Regrets delay in returning CD’s books.
Encourages CD to make "disparaging remarks".
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5117 |
From George Henslow 12 March 1866
Summary
Thanks for references for his Naudin–hybridism paper [see 5029].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5033 |
From George Henslow 8 March 1866
Summary
Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.
Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5029 |
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- … DAR 166: 153 George Henslow London, South Crescent, 10 8 Mar 1866 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 10 February [1866] . In his letter of 2 December 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13), Henslow asked CD whether he might keep a copy of CD’s paper ‘On the agency of bees in the fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers, and on the crossing of kidney beans’ ( Correspondence vol. 7, letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 13 November 1858]; Collected papers 2: 19–25). For more on Henslow’s interest in this topic, see Correspondence vol. 13, letter from George …
From George Henslow [after 19 April 1866]
Summary
Thanks for explanation on relative fertility of homostyled and heterostyled crosses in Primula. Sends an intermediate form with small stamens, but stigma only slightly above stamens.
Election as Botanical Lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 19 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5044 |
From George Henslow 7 April 1866
Summary
Sends copies of Science gossip and The leisure hour.
Enjoyed visit.
His criticism of Primula fertility referred to table 2 [Collected papers 2: 56] where weight of seeds produced from good pods by long-styled homostylous cross and short-styled heterostylous cross are virtually identical.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5048 |
From George Henslow 2 December 1865
Summary
Has been writing a review of CD’s "Climbing plants" for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 55–65].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 152, 152/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4944 |
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- … DAR 166: 152, 152/1 George Henslow London, South Crescent, 10 2 Dec 1865 Charles Robert …
- … 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54. ‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] ]Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 (1867): 1–118. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Henslow, George. …
From George Henslow 6 November 1865
Summary
Pleased CD confirms his observations on Salvia.
Spring action of Medicago stamens described.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4931 |
From George Henslow 1 November 1865
Summary
Has made observations on pollination mechanism in Medicago sativa [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 327–9], which his brother-in-law [J. D. Hooker] would accept. Wants to check that CD has not already made them.
Also sends interpretation of Salvia.
His observations come from following CD’s generalisation in Origin [p. 79] on necessity of out-crossing.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4928 |
From George Henslow [13 or 14 June 1866]
Summary
Thanks for criticism of proofs of his paper [see 5117].
Not sure whether CD believes in reversion and would like a positive statement as this is the one point C. V. Naudin especially observed. Naudin offers his remarks on ovules as a matter to be proved ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1 (1865): 25–176].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 14] June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5120 |
To Elizabeth Drysdale [22 or 29 October 1859]
Summary
Declines an invitation to visit [Moor] Park.
He hopes that Dr Lane is arranging things to his satisfaction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale |
Date: | [22 or 29] Oct 1859 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 88); Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré (dealers) (Catalogue 55); B & L Rootenberg (dealers) (May 1991) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2498A |
Henslow, George. 1868b. Note on the structure of Genista tinctoria, as apparently affording facilities for the intercrossing of distinct flowers. [Read 16 April 1868.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 10 (1869): 468.
From Hubert Airy 12 December 1871
Summary
Thanks for letter and reference to Nägeli’s observations on leaf arrangement in the bud.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8105 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 20 April [1866]
Summary
Is obliged to receive FH’s papers. The cases of Lopezia and Schizanthus are new to him.
In 1860 CD watched Bombus lapidarius sucking the flowers of Pedicularis sylvatica and saw what FH has described.
Has not yet read the paper on Salvia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 20 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 698) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5062A |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1860]
Summary
Lyell, de facto, first to stress importance of geological changes for geographical distribution.
Asa Gray has given CD too much credit for theories of geographical distribution.
Reaction to hostile criticism
and debt to Lyell, Huxley, JDH, and W. B. Carpenter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2802 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
To John Russell [10 July 1848]
Summary
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
Date: | [10 July 1848] |
Classmark: | Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188F |
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