The teaching of science in Cambridge : Sedgwick, Henslow, Darwin

Author(s)

• Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens)
• Sedgwick, Adam
• Darwin, Charles

Bibliographic Information

The teaching of science in Cambridge : Sedgwick, Henslow, Darwin

John Stevens Henslow, Adam Sedgwick, Charles Darwin

（Cambridge library collection, . Darwin）

Cambridge University Press, 2009

• : pbk

Note

"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso

This volume contains five pamphlets

Facsim. of 2nd ed. published: Cambridge : Printed by J. Hodson, 1832 (1st pamphlet). Facsim. of ed. published: Cambridge : Printed by J. Hodson, 1828 (2nd pamphlet). Facsim. of ed. published: Cambridge : Printed at the University Press, 1853 (3rd pamphlet ). Facsim. of ed. published: [Cambridge?] : [Henslow, J.S.], [1835?] (4th pamphlet). Facsim. of ed. published: Cambridge : Printed by Metcalfe and Palmer, 1846 (5th pamphlet)

"Henslow read extracts of Darwin's letters to him to a meeing of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and published them at his own expence (the fourth pamphlet)"--Front p

Contents of Works

• A syllabus of a course of lectures on geology / by A. Sedgwick
• Syllabus of a course of botanical lectures / by J.S. Henslow
• Syllabus of lectures on botany, with an appendix, containing copious demonstrations of fourteen common plants for the illustration of terms / by J.S. Henslow
• For private distribution / [by Charles Darwin and J.S. Henslow]
• Address to the members of the University of Cambridge, on the expediency of improving, and on the funds required for remodelling and supporting, the botanic garden / by J.S. Henslow

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 1. Syllabus of a course of lectures on geology
• 2. Syllabus of a course of botanical lectures
• 3. Syllabus of lectures on botany: with an appendix, containing copious demonstrations of fourteen common plants for the illustration of terms
• 4. Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow
• 5. Address to the members of the University of Cambridge on the Botanic Garden.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BB03037777
• ISBN:
  • 9781108002004
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge [England]
• Pages/Volumes: 1 v.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • NDLC : ME511
  • NDLC : RA211
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Geology -- Outlines, syllabi, etc
  • LCSH : Botany -- Study and teaching
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB00083053