To Leonard Jenyns 10 April [1837]
Summary
Discusses possibility of publishing the zoology of the voyage of the Beagle. Will need help from more able naturalists. Would LJ object to describing the fishes for such a work rather than for scientific journals? Is working on his Beagle journal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1837] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-354 |
To W. S. MacLeay 29 May 1839
Summary
Introduces Syms Covington and recommends him for employment in Australia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sharp Macleay |
| Date: | 29 May 1839 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-513 |
To Leonard Jenyns 29 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks LJ for his useful facts. Will "look to" the reference about the nightingale.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5957 |
White, Gilbert. 1843. The natural history of Selborne. New ed., with notes by Leonard Jenyns. London.
To Leonard Jenyns 22 February [1868]
Summary
Asks LJ which British birds are polygamous. His query relates to the possession by the male of secondary sexual characters.
CD is also interested in the numerical proportion of the sexes in birds.
Asks about the use of the horns in male lamellicorn or coprophagous beetles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5911 |
Jenyns, George (1795–1878)
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- … Leonard Blomefield (formerly Jenyns). Lived at Bottisham Hall, Cambridgeshire. Alum. Cantab . Bibliography Alum. Cantab. : Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 …
Jenyns, G. L. (1763–1848)
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- … Leonard Jenyns 1763–1848 Vicar of Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire, 1787–1848; prebendary of Ely, 1802–48. Inherited Bottisham Hall, Cambridgeshire, from his second cousin in 1787. Alum. Cantab . Bibliography Alum. Cantab. : Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 …
From J. S. Henslow 2 August 1856
Summary
One plant in self-sown patch of Aegilops has assumed a triticoidal character; JSH feels it may be an example of Aegilops passing to wheat.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Aug 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1936 |
To J. S. Henslow 20 February [1854]
Summary
Honoured and gratified by the dedication [to CD] of Hooker’s book [Himalayan journals].
News of Lyell from Madeira.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1854] |
| Classmark: | California State Library, San Francisco, Sutro Library (Crocker collection: folder #11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1554 |
To Leonard Jenyns [14 or 21 August 1846]
Summary
Looks forward to LJ’s volume [Observations in natural history (1846)].
Observations on what the world would call trifling points in natural history are always very interesting to him. Deplores their absence in foreign periodicals.
Is slaving away to finish S. American geology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [14 or 21] Aug 1846 |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-987 |
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 |
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- … 10 November 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 …
To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1858]
Summary
Pleased with JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Confident of soundness of principle of divergence.
CD experimenting on pollination mechanism of Leguminosae. Asks JDH to investigate Fumariaceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 [June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2282 |
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- … 10 June 1858. In a letter to Charles James Fox Bunbury , Charles Lyell reported that the doctors had told Brown that they could keep him alive until Christmas with opium and stimulants, ‘but he preferred not to live with a mind impaired, and so cheerfully and tranquilly, and in full possession of his intellect, gave way to the break up of nature. ’ (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881,2: 284). Mary Jenyns , Leonard …
To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1862]
Summary
Has received Melastoma and Vanilla.
Has seen again the two sets of plants of Heterocentron raised from two lots of pollen from same flower – a marvellous difference in stature.
"But oh Lord what will become of my book on variation: I am involved in a multiplicity of experiments."
Observations on Viola.
CD’s fancied dimorphism of Oxalis is all a confounded mistake; only great variability in length of pistils.
Found Henslow’s life [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. J. S. Henslow (1862)] interesting but fears the public will think it dull.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3575 |
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