To J. S. Henslow 8 May [1860]
Summary
Comments on Richard Owen’s review of the Origin [in Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532]. Considers Owen unfair to CD and most ungenerous toward Hooker.
Expects Sedgwick to be fierce against him. Sedgwick also misrepresented CD in his Spectator review [24 Mar and 7 Apr 1860].
Compares natural selection to the undulatory theory of light as a hypothesis explaining a large number of facts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 8 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A67–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2791 |
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 |
To J. S. Henslow 4 August [1858]
Summary
CD and his family have come to the seashore, driven from home by scarlet fever at Down, death [of Charles Waring Darwin], and other family illness. Sorry to miss seeing JSH.
Would be grateful to hear his objections to CD’s species speculations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A53–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2320 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hooker, 31 July 1858 . Henslow visited Down in November 1858 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [November 1858] ). Henslow’s son George had graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge earlier in the year. It is not known what Henslow advised, but according to CD’s Account book (Down House MS), £100 was paid into William Erasmus Darwin’s account on 1 January 1859. …
