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    John Stevens Henslow (6 February 1796 – 16 May 1861) was an English Anglican priest, botanist and geologist. He is best remembered as friend and mentor...
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  • (Surveyor of the Navy) (1730–1815), naval architect John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), botanist, Sir John Henslow's grandson and Charles Darwin's mentor Francis...
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  • John Henslow may refer to: Sir John Henslow (Surveyor of the Navy) (1730–1815), a naval architect John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), botanist and Charles...
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    Henslow's sparrow (Centronyx henslowii) is a passerine bird in the family Passerellidae. It was named by John James Audubon in honor of John Stevens Henslow...
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  • son of Edward Prentis Henslow. Darwin’s Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861 S. M. Walters and E. A. Stow CUP "Sir John Henslow (1730-1815)". Three Decks...
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    1821–1928, but was then discontinued. The society was founded in 1819 by John Stevens Henslow, Adam Sedgwick and Edward Clarke, is Cambridge's oldest scientific...
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    national repute under its second president (1850–61), Revd Professor John Stevens Henslow, who had been Charles Darwin's mentor at Cambridge University. In...
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  • Extracts from Letters to Henslow, taken from ten letters Charles Darwin wrote to John Stevens Henslow from South America during the second survey expedition...
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  • based upon material left in manuscript by John Stevens Henslow, and illustrated by Henslow's daughter, Anne Henslow Barnard of Cheltenham. With a second edition...
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  • pillaged for human bones to satisfy demand. In 1842, the Reverend John Stevens Henslow found coprolites – fossilised dinosaur dung – in the cliffs of south...
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    chance of becoming fossilized. In 1842 the Rev John Stevens Henslow, a professor of botany at St John's College, Cambridge, discovered coprolites just...
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    Utricularia clandestina. Darwin’s teacher and mentor at Cambridge, John Stevens Henslow, had a clear understanding of the morphology of Utricularia (bladderwort)...
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    Cardale Babington (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    of Charles Darwin, he was a student of John Stevens Henslow, active in botanical circles and succeeded Henslow as professor of botany at Cambridge. Apart...
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  • Professorship of Mineralogy and Petrology. Edward Daniel Clarke (1808) John Stevens Henslow (1822) William Whewell (1828) William Hallowes Miller (1832) William...
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  • Others, such as Herbert Spencer, the botanist George Henslow (son of Darwin's mentor John Stevens Henslow, also a botanist), and Samuel Butler, felt that evolution...
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    (fl. 1307) was an English chronicler. John Stevens Henslow The priest, botanist and geologist John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861) was born in Rochester. Dame...
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    Fox, Darwin became a close friend and follower of botany professor John Stevens Henslow. He met other leading parson-naturalists who saw scientific work...
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  • Leonard Jenyns (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    went to St. John's College Cambridge in 1818 and during his second year, his interest in natural history was noticed by John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861)...
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    was created for the University of Cambridge in 1831 by Professor John Stevens Henslow (Charles Darwin's mentor) and was opened to the public in 1846. The...
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  • Professor of Botany. Richard Bradley (1724) John Martyn (1733) Thomas Martyn (1762) John Stevens Henslow (1825) Cardale Babington (1861) Harry Marshall...
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    and physicist James Hector (1834–1907), geologist and naturalist John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), mineralogist and botanist William Herschel (1738-1822)...
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  • Max Walters (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    retirement, he wrote a biography of Darwin's teacher and friend, John Stevens Henslow, Darwin's mentor (2001). Walters was a committed Christian who was...
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  • (Mathematics) 1789 Francis John Hyde Wollaston (Mathematics) 1807 Robert Woodhouse (Mathematics) 1831 John Stevens Henslow (Mathematics) 1842 David Thomas...
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    larger feathers. As with his other collections, these were sent to John Stevens Henslow in Cambridge. On 26 January the Beagle entered the Straits of Magellan...
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  • naturalist and museum curator, who collaborated with Professor John Stevens Henslow in the formation of Ipswich Museum in 1847–1850, the first Museum...
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    Darwin was guided in his natural history researches by John Stevens Henslow. As a teenager Henslow had been tutored in zoology by Leach Temminck created...
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  • Vietnam. The genus name of Henslowia is in honour of John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861). Henslow was a British priest, botanist and geologist. It was first...
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    although there is no direct evidence to support this. Professor John Stevens Henslow described the position "more as a companion than a mere collector"...
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  • of letters and notes, including correspondence between Darwin and John Stevens Henslow, his mentor. The Columbine flower cultivar Aquilegia "Nora Barlow"...
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  • parson-naturalists were for instance George Thomas Rudd (1795-1847), John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), Leonard Jenyns (1800–1893), William Darwin Fox (1805–1880)...
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