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Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.C.P.S.
First published in 1862, this biography pays tribute to John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861), botanist, clergyman and mentor to Darwin.
Darwin's Mentor
John Stevens Henslow is known for his formative influence on Charles Darwin, who described their meeting as the one circumstance 'which influenced my career more than any other'. As Professor of Botany at Cambridge University, Henslow was Darwin's teacher and eventual lifelong friend, but what of the man himself? In this biography, much previously unpublished material has been carefully sifted and selected to produce a rounded picture of a remarkable and unusually likeable academic. The time in 1829-31 when Darwin 'walked with Henslow' in and around Cambridge was followed directly by Darwin's voyage around the world. The gradually changing relationship between teacher and pupil over the course of time is revealed through their correspondence, illuminating a remarkable friendship which persisted, in spite of Darwin's eventual atheism and Henslow's never-failing liberal Christian belief, to the end of Henslow's life.
Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, M. A. , F. L. S. , F. G. S. , F. C. P. S.
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Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, M.A., F. L. S., F. G. S., F. C. P. S
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Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.C.P.S.
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Darwin's Mentor
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Selected Papers, 1821–38
Published over seventeen years, and now reissued here together, these thirteen papers reveal Henslow's wide-ranging geological and botanical interests.
Darwin and Henslow
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The Teaching of Science in Cambridge
This volume contains five pamphlets which illustrate the world in which Charles Darwin moved in Cambridge, and the slow development of life and earth sciences as subjects of academic study. (Darwin himself was officially following a course of study which would fit him to become an Anglican parson). The first pamphlet (from 1821) is a proposed series of lectures on geology by Adam Sedgwick, who taught Darwin the rudiments of the subject during a tour of north Wales. The next two are botany courses proposed by John Stevens Henslow, the mentor and close friend who first suggested that Darwin should go as naturalist on the Beagle voyage. Henslow read extracts of Darwin's letters to him to a meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and published them at his own expense (the fourth pamphlet). The final pamphlet is an impassioned plea from Henslow for support for a new University Botanic Garden.
