To John Stevens Henslow 3 January [1856]
Summary
Thanks for JSH’s letter, which has been of real use.
Complains of the trouble caused by reports to Government required of Benefit Clubs.
Interested in case of Canada geese with seed in crop, because means of distribution is now a great hobby.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 3 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A106–A107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1816 |
To J. S. Henslow 22 January [1856]
Summary
Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 22 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A108–A109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1823 |
To J. S. Henslow 16 June [1856]
Summary
Sends a cultivated specimen of Myosotis (first generation) grown from seed sent by JSH. Asks for a tuft of flower.
Hopes JSH will publish a book on teaching botany, because he has no idea how to begin with his children.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 16 June [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A110–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1903 |
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 6 August [1856]
Summary
Reports on results of forcing and other attempts to produce variations in plants. Asks for some seeds.
Is correcting his Linnean Society paper ["On the action of sea-water", Collected papers 1: 264–71].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 6 Aug [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A55–A56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1939 |
To J. S. Henslow [after 6 December 1856]
Summary
He is steadily and very hard at work on "Variation" [Natural selection] and finds the whole subject "deeply interesting but horribly perplexed".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [after 6 Dec 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2006 |
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