Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861
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John Stevens Henslow was a British botanist and taught mineralogy (1822-1827) and botany (1827-1861) at Cambridge. It was he who recommended his pupil Charles Robert Darwin as naturalist for the Beagle expedition, 1831-1836.
John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861), botanist, was born at Rochester on 6 February 1796. He was educated at Rochester before attending St John's College, Cambridge, where he was University Professor of Mineralogy, 1822-1827, and of Botany, 1827-1861. He became a member of the London University Senate in 1836, and examiner in botany in 1838. He was Vicar of Hitcham, Suffolk, from 1839. Henslow was the author of Catalogue of British plants (1829) and Dictionary of botanical terms (1857). He died at Hitcham on 16 May 1861.
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