To J. S. Henslow 2 April [1860]
Summary
Reminds JSH to send "sketch & account of the wasp’s comb in transitional state from horizontal to vertical, & the country whence procured".
Asks for information on spread of Anacharis [Elodea].
Sedgwick [in criticism of Origin] was not very fair, but Murray says it is splendid for selling copies to "the unfortunate students".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 2 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2742 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … for your Sermon & for copies of the Examination Papers received some time since. Sedgwick’ …
- … Study was directed to establish the examination requirements and appoint examiners. See …
- … concentrate more on individual subjects for the examination ( Winstanley 1947 , p. 188). …
- … C. C. Babington 1848 ). Henslow served on the examination boards for Cambridge and London …
From J. S. Henslow 6 February 1832
Summary
News of Cambridge: the recent examinations; memorial tablet for Marmaduke Ramsay.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-157 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … News of Cambridge: the recent examinations; memorial tablet for Marmaduke Ramsay. …
- … I shall tell you a little about the late examination, which seems to have been rather a …
To J. S. Henslow 26 October [1860]
Summary
CD does not mind C. R. Bree’s dull, unvarying abuse and misrepresentation, but when he doubts CD’s deliberate word, "that is the act of a man who has not the soul of a gentleman in him".
JSH’s letter in Athenæum ["Flints in the drift", 20 Oct. 1860, p. 516] is interesting.
H. Freke’s paper [On the origin of species by means of organic affinity (1861)] is beyond CD’s scope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 26 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A81–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2964 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … of secondary causes. Being a critical examination of Mr Darwin’s work entitled ‘Origin and …
- … letter from Henslow discussing his recent examination of celts in drift deposits in France …
To J. S. Henslow 10 November [1860]
Summary
The stone hatchets are a great muddle. Would like a copy of Jacques Boucher [de Crèvecoeur] de Perthes’s book [Antiquités Celtiques et antédiluviennes (1847–64)].
Is studying action of carbonate of ammonia on Drosera. Asks if this has been done.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 10 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2981 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of secondary causes. Being a critical examination of Mr Darwin’s work entitled ‘Origin and …
To J. S. Henslow 24 July – 7 November 1834
Summary
CD is excited by JSH’s high opinion of his collections.
Discusses his notes and some new discoveries. Summary of events since leaving Falklands.
Geology of Patagonia.
Corallines at Tierra del Fuego convince him of artificiality of arrangement of their families by Lamarck and Cuvier.
Geological expedition in Andes, ending with serious illness. Specimens being sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 24 July & 28 Oct & 7 Nov 1834 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 22 DAR/1/1/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-251 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … formation. — I conjecture (an accurate examination of fossils may possibly determine the …
- … structure; I am forced to take a very rough examination as a type for different classes of …
To J. S. Henslow 2 July [1848]
Summary
Criticises lecturing system in education and emphasis on classics. Has forgotten all his classical knowledge.
Asks JSH’s help in naming cirripedes, on which he is working. Believes he has made "some very curious points".
Expects a sixth child [Francis] in August.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 2 July [1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A18–A20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … was one of the books set for CD’s B.A. examination at Cambridge University in 1831. See …
To J. S. Henslow [2 September 1843]
Summary
Tells how W. Kemp found the seeds of Atriplex, which Lindley sent to JSH for identification.
Asks about monstrous plant mentioned by Lindley [see 690].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [2 Sept 1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A8–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-691 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … history & how worthy it is of careful examination. A M r . W. Kemp, (an almost labouring …
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
- … Galapagos plants, without any further examination:— You can tell me what genus of fungi …
To J. S. Henslow [23 July –] 15 August [1832]
Summary
Specimens being sent off. Describes his collection of rocks, plants, and insects. Some particularly interesting specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [23 July –] 15 Aug [1832] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 13 DAR/1/1/13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-178 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the voyage, giving the results of examination with the blow-pipe, goniometer, magnet, and …
From J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker 10 May 1860
Summary
Describes Sedgwick’s attack on CD’s views [at Cambridge Philosophical Society] and his own defence, though he believes CD has pressed his hypothesis too far.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 May 1860 |
Classmark: | MS Add. 9537/2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2794 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … The tripos is the system of honours examination for Cambridge University undergraduates. …
To J. S. Henslow 28 March [1837]
Summary
Publication plans for the account of the Beagle expedition – CD to have the third volume for his journal.
News of naturalists and their interest in his specimens. Queries about plant specimens, including one on whether seeds from Keeling Island would endure salt water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 28 Mar [1837] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 34 DAR/1/1/34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-353 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … water. I suppose, after a little more examination you would be able to say, what was the …
To J. S. Henslow [28 May 1837]
Summary
CD to read paper on formation of coral islands at Geological Society. Lyell seems prepared to give up [his view].
Publication of the Narrative is now definite. Feels he should have published journal after the geology and zoology of the voyage.
Robert Brown, as well as JSH, is interested in edible fungi from Tierra del Fuego.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [28 May 1837] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 36 DAR/1/1/36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-356 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of subsidence, would require a very guarded examination on the spot, with such ideas in …
To J. S. Henslow 18 July 1833
Summary
Fears JSH will think his collections scanty. Makes it a constant rule to prefer obscure and diminutive tribes of animals.
Now has a servant whom he has taught to skin birds, etc.
Lists four barrels of specimens he is sending.
Gives future route. He looks forward to the western coast of South America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 18 July 1833 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 18 DAR/1/1/18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-210 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … bay, they would be well worth a long examination. — above the great oyster bed, there is …
To J. S. Henslow [30–1 October 1836]
Summary
CD in London to meet with naturalists about his collections. Lyell and Owen are helpful, but no one else, except R. E. Grant, seems to want to examine his specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [30–1 Oct 1836] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 32 DAR/1/1/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-317 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … a minute, that any man will undertake the examination of an whole order. — It is clear the …
To J. S. Henslow 18 April 1835
Summary
Has just returned from crossing the Cordilleras. Geological observations of formations representing great epochs of violence which broke up the earth’s crust. Shells at over 12000 feet. Silicified trees in sandstone formations at great heights. Red snow and viviparous lizards. Botanical specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 18 Apr 1835 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 26 DAR/1/1/26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-274 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the other. During two days of careful examination I said to myself at least 50 times, how …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … in 1848 Cambridge instituted a tripos examination in the natural sciences, and in 1850 …
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Horsman, Edward | (1) |
Kay, Joseph | (1) |
King, P. J. L. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Percival, E. F. | (1) |
Phillips, T. J. | (1) |
Phillips-Jodrell, T. J. | (1) |
Powell, Baden | (1) |
Price, Bonamy | (1) |
Robartes, T. J. A. | (1) |
Russell, John | (1) |
Senior, N. W. | (1) |
Verney, Harry | (1) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
Yorke, H. G. R. | (1) |
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
Summary
In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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- … rotundifolia tentacles, Francis had to delay further examinations . His father encouraged …
Correspondence with women
Summary
We know of letters to or from around 2000 correspondents, about 100 of whom were women. Using the letter summaries available on this website, the letters can be assigned to rough categories. Included in the count are letters to women in Darwin’s family…
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- … of women was maintained artificially by their exclusion from examinations and learned societies. He …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … was becoming determined by qualifications and entry examinations. This made their choice of private …
Forms of flowers
Summary
Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … been so much observed of late and which in the course of our examinations for Genera Plantarum had …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
Summary
Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … able properly to consider the results of his and others’ examinations of the Beagle specimens …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … (George and Leonard), who had recently excelled in their examinations. Darwin himself was described …