Letter to John Stevens Henslow, 1832, October 20.

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Letter to John Stevens Henslow, 1832, October 20.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281307593

In this four-page letter, written by Edward Bannerman Ramsay in Edinburgh to John Stevens Henslow, Ramsay talks about his collection of plant specimens and requests that Henslow send him some that he does not already have. Ramsay also talks about other scientists including Charles Lyell, William Jackson Hooker, John Lindley, Robert Graham and George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie (Ramsay had just spent a week at Dalhousie Castle). The letter is in fragile condition.

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Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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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. From the description of Papers, 1825-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466006 From the guide to the J. S. (John Stevens) Henslow papers, 1825-1867, 1825-1867, (American Philosophical Society) John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861), botanist, ...

Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875

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Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet, (1797-1875, APS, 1842) was a geologist and lawyer, whose Principles of Geology explained “former changes of the earth’s surface” by means of “modern causes.” Critical of the “catastrophist” views of many contemporary geologists, Lyell considered the earth “a system of balanced antagonistic processes,” a theory later described as uniformitarian. Although he rejected Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of species mutability early in his career, later he favorabl...

Lindley, John, 1799-1865

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Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865

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William Jackson Hooker was the premier English botanist of his time. His early interest in natural history was refined to botany by the fortuitous discovery of a rare moss. His education included travels through Europe, after which he became regius professor of botany at Glasgow. He published extensively, and founded and edited several journals; his main interests were ferns, mosses, and fungi, and he was a pioneer of economic botany. He was appointed first director of Kew Gardens, which became ...

Dalhousie, George Ramsay, Earl of, 1770-1838

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Ninth Earl of Dalhousie, British General, and commander-in-chief in India. From the description of Letter, 1830. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36321567 Governor General of Canada and Nova Scotia 1819-1828. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Halifax [Nova Scotia], to an unidentified American friend, 1819 Oct. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270520193 ...

Ramsay, Edward Bannerman, 1793-1872

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Edward Bannerman Ramsay was a clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church and Dean of Edinburgh. He was also a writer and avid amateur botanist. John Stevens Henslow, also a botanist, is best known for being professor of botany at Cambridge and Charles Darwin's mentor. From the description of Letter to John Stevens Henslow, 1832, October 20. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 281307593 ...

Graham, Robert, 1786-1845

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