To Leonard Jenyns [20 or 27 October 1839]
Summary
Details regarding Fish. CD is astonished how many new things LJ has found: "four new genera is something".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [20 or 27] Oct 1839 |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-540 |
To Leonard Jenyns 15 July [1839]
Summary
Discusses details of LJ’s part of Zoology [Fish].
CD is working hard on Coral reefs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 15 July [1839] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-527 |
To Leonard Jenyns 14 October [1839]
Summary
Informs LJ that Yarrell has recommended B. W. Hawkins to do the plates [for Fish]. Discusses arrangements to be made, number of plates, etc. Answers LJ’s questions about several specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1839] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-538 |
To Leonard Jenyns 17 October [1839]
Summary
Discusses details of arrangements for descriptions and engravings [for Fish].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 17 Oct [1839] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-539 |
To Leonard Jenyns [4 December 1837]
Summary
Is sorry the fish [for Zoology] give LJ so much trouble. Urges him not to give up. Describes publication plan of Zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [4 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-392 |
To Leonard Jenyns [27 February 1840]
Summary
Has been unwell. Publication of two numbers [of Zoology] has been delayed. Thought first Fish number good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-558 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 October 1863
Summary
Sorrow at loss of his daughter.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 160–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4317 |
From Leonard Jenyns [before 18 April 1858]
Summary
[Copy of some rough notes.] References about species. Variations within species.
| Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 18 Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 45: 20–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2250 |
To J. S. Henslow [21 January 1838]
Summary
Sends rock specimen for W. H. Miller. Asks JSH to see whether there is any geology in P. B. Webb and Sabin Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries [1835–50]. Finds his work on geology growing so large that it will take more than one volume and asks whether this will make publication aid more difficult.
Has accepted Secretaryship of the Geological Society.
Will not come to Cambridge because "as long as I continue well I cannot bear to leave my work for half a day".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [21 Jan 1838] |
| Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Dreer collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-400 |
To J. S. Henslow [12 or 13 July 1837]
Summary
Has been "cramming up learning to ornament my journal with".
Sends a list of questions on his botanical specimens. Needs answers for Journal of researches, which he expects to go to press in August.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [12 or 13 July 1837] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 37 DAR/1/1/37) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-366 |
Matches: 1 hit
To Leonard Jenyns 9 April [1858]
Summary
Asks LJ to lend him a copy of his paper ["Variation of species", Rep. BAAS 26 (1856): 101–5] and any notes or references he has. Although CD has a large accumulation of facts, it is impossible to see and consider too many.
His health is poor.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2253 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Jenyns, Leonard. 1858. Observations in meteorology. London. [vols. 3,7] Journal of researches : Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by HMS Beagle, under the command of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
To John Stevens Henslow 3 November 1838
Summary
Relates plan for an appendix to his Journal of researches which will include facts of species of birds’ being different in different islands of the Galápagos and also of the lizards and tortoises on the islands. Asks JSH whether he can supply parallels in the plant life.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1838 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 2031 A. Gift of H. W. Lende Jr) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-429A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1839] and [22 January 1843] ). Joseph Dalton Hooker eventually identified them (see Correspondence vols. 3 and 4), and observations arising from those identifications were added to Journal of researches 2d ed. , pp. 392–3, 395–8. For CD’s notes on his collection of plants during the Beagle voyage, see D. M. Porter 1987 . The letter from Henslow has not been found. Leonard Jenyns …
From J. D. Hooker 19 [June 1862]
Summary
Household problems: wife’s health, visitors to Kew.
Will go to sale of J. C. Ross’s effects looking for glacial and Kerguelen Land works not at British Museum.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [June 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 38–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3611 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Leonard Jenyns married Sarah Hawthorn of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, on 24 June 1862 ( Gentleman’s Magazine n.s. 13 (1862): 222). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 June [1862] , n. 6. See also letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 June 1862 . The polar explorer, James Clark Ross , died in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire on 3 April 1862; Hooker had been assistant surgeon on Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839– …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (7) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (8) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (8) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
