Darwin's mentor : John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861
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Darwin's mentor : John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861
Cambridge University Press, 2001
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science研究室
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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 In this biography, much previously unpublished material has been carefully sifted and selected to produce a rounded picture of a remarkable and unusually likeable academic.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.
Table of Contents
- Foreword P. Bateson
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- List of colour plates
- Part I. Origins: 1. Family background: growing up in Kent and London
- Part II. Cambridge: 2. The young Henslow at Cambridge
- 3. Henslow: men who influenced him at Cambridge
- 4. Harriet
- 5. The young Professor
- 6. Educating Charles Darwin and others
- 7. The middle years: politics, policing and publication
- 8. The Botanic Garden: old and new
- 9. A liberal churchman
- Part III. Hitcham: 10. Early years as Rector of Hitcham
- 11. The Rector
- 12. The later years
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1. Genealogical tables
- Appendix 2. Chronology
- Appendix 3. Dramatis personae
- Appendix 4. Eponymous taxa
- Appendix 5. Local botanical records
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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