Extracts from Letters to Henslow, taken from ten letters Charles Darwin wrote to John Stevens Henslow from South America during the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, were read to the Cambridge P
The front page of the 1960 reprint of Extracts from Letters to Henslow with a similar distribution to the original of 1835 - members and associates of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
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Extracts from Letters to Henslow
…from ten letters Charles Darwin wrote to John Stevens Henslow from South America during the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, were read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on 16 November 1835 by Henslow and Adam Sedgwick, followed on 18 November by geological notes from the letters which Sedgwick read to the Geological…
The Cambridge Philosophical Society Wax Seal, 1832.
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Coloured plate from R.T. Lowe 'On the Fishes of Madeira' from Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Volume 6, 1838.