To Leonard Jenyns 5 April [1840]
Summary
Health is improved, but would do anything to get strong again. Is consulting his father; will return to London soon to see B. W. Hawkins.
Will send MS [of Fish, no. 2] to the printer, and be there when LJ comes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 5 Apr [1840] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-563 |
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 |
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 |
To Leonard Jenyns 24 June [1841]
Summary
Doctors predict it will take years for CD’s constitution to recover.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 24 June [1841] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-599 |
To Leonard Jenyns [November 1841]
Summary
Details regarding volume on Fish.
Sends notes on Diodon.
Must give up attending Geological Society evening meetings; knocks him up.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [Nov 1841] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-611 |
To Leonard Jenyns [13? January 1842]
Summary
CD is pleased with LJ’s introduction [to Fish]. He rejoices that he persuaded LJ to undertake this work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [13? Jan 1842] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-614 |
To Leonard Jenyns [May–September 1842]
Summary
Glad to hear that LJ will repeat his notes to Gilbert White’s [Natural history of] Selborne [1843] in a separate work.
Critical of G. R. Gray’s attaching his own name to Furnarius cunicularius [in Birds, pp. 65–6]. Strickland’s nomenclature laws are needed to check egoism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [May–Sept 1842] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-627 |
To Leonard Jenyns [9 May 1842]
Summary
Is sending fish skins and bottles off to Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Fish numbers [of Zoology], now finished, give CD satisfaction when he doubts whether he ought to have applied for Government money.
Wishes Thomas Bell would finish his part [Reptiles].
CD has just corrected last page of index of Coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [9 May 1842] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-629 |
To Leonard Jenyns 12 October [1844]
Summary
Asks whether LJ can throw light on this subject: "What are the checks and what the periods of life by which the increase of any given species is limited?" CD has been driven to conclude that species are mutable; allied species are co-descendants from common stocks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 12 Oct [1844] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-782 |
To Leonard Jenyns 25 [November 1844]
Summary
On checks to increase of species and the observations which led him to regard species as mutable in form. Would welcome "at some future time" LJ’s criticism of the "sketch" of his conclusions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 25 [Nov 1844] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-793 |
To Leonard Jenyns 14 February [1845]
Summary
Discusses checks on growth of species population; use of term "mutation" in his species theory. His belief in species mutability.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 14 Feb [1845] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-828 |
To Leonard Blomefield 17 April [1873]
Summary
Thanks LB for his essay on local biology.
CD with much care and discomfort is now able to work a few hours almost every day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 17 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (LET3016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8863 |
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 |
From Leonard Blomefield 12 March 1877
Summary
Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.
Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10889 |
From Leonard Jenyns [before 18 April 1858]
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18 Apr 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 45: 20–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2250 |
From Leonard Jenyns 4 January 1860
Summary
Has read Origin and considers it one of the most valuable contributions to present-day natural history. Believes, however, that there are difficulties in the extensive generalisation that all taxonomic groups are related by descent. Does not understand how Genesis is to be read unless at least the human species was created independently of other animals. Cannot bring himself to the idea that man’s reasoning and moral sense could have been obtained from "irrational progenitors": the "Divine Image" is the unsurmountable distinction between man and brutes. [See 2644.]
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 95–103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2637A |
From Leonard Jenyns 31 December 1861
Summary
Thanks CD for his contribution to the memoir of Henslow [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)].
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3355 |
From Leonard Jenyns 22 January [1862]
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3406 |
From Leonard Jenyns 28 May 1862
Summary
Pleased with CD’s opinion of the Henslow Memoir [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)]
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3573 |
From Leonard Jenyns 27 February 1868
Summary
On polygamous birds and the pairing of birds. Late singing of males. [see Descent 2: 107.]
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A14–15, DAR 84.1: 116–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5944 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (9) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (9) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (33) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (33) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |