To Leonard Jenyns [4 December 1837]
Summary
Is sorry the fish [for Zoology] give LJ so much trouble. Urges him not to give up. Describes publication plan of Zoology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [4 Dec 1837] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-392 |
To Leonard Jenyns 15 July [1839]
Summary
Discusses details of LJ’s part of Zoology [Fish].
CD is working hard on Coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 15 July [1839] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-527 |
To Leonard Jenyns 14 October [1839]
Summary
Informs LJ that Yarrell has recommended B. W. Hawkins to do the plates [for Fish]. Discusses arrangements to be made, number of plates, etc. Answers LJ’s questions about several specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 14 Oct [1839] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-538 |
To Leonard Jenyns 17 October [1839]
Summary
Discusses details of arrangements for descriptions and engravings [for Fish].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 17 Oct [1839] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-539 |
To Leonard Jenyns [20 or 27 October 1839]
Summary
Details regarding Fish. CD is astonished how many new things LJ has found: "four new genera is something".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [20 or 27] Oct 1839 |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-540 |
To Leonard Jenyns [27 February 1840]
Summary
Has been unwell. Publication of two numbers [of Zoology] has been delayed. Thought first Fish number good.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [27 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-558 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From Leonard Jenyns [c. 30 March 1841]
Summary
LJ has had a letter from R. T. Lowe in Madeira who thinks Scorpaena histrio, a species from Galapagos described in no. 1 [of Fish], is the same as the one in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. LJ does not think it is possible.
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 30 Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-596 |
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 |
From Leonard Jenyns 9 May 1868
Summary
Sends his notes on Florent Prévost’s reference to the habits of the cuckoo.
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6168 |
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 |
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Blomefield, Leonard | (9) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (9) |
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Jenyns, Leonard | (33) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (42) |
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Jenyns, Leonard | (42) |