Darwin's Mentor

Name: Darwin's Mentor
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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John Stevens Henslow, 1796 1861

By: Max Walters, S. M. Walters, E. A. Stow

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Hardcover | 21 January 2002

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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 life-long friend, but what of the man himself? In this new biography, much previously unpublished material has been carefully sifted and selected to produce a rounded picture of a remarkable and unusually likable academic.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.

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Published: 6th August 2009

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List of Illustrations	p. viii
Foreword	p. xi
Prefaces and Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Origins	p. 1
Family background: growing up in Kent and London	p. 3
Cambridge	p. 9
The young Henslow at Cambridge	p. 11
Henslow: men who influenced him at Cambridge	p. 22
Harriet	p. 38
The young Professor	p. 49
Educating Charles Darwin--and others	p. 78
The middle years: politics, policing and publication	p. 108
The Botanic Garden: Old and New	p. 128
A Liberal Churchman	p. 155
Hitcham	p. 175
Early years as Rector of Hitcham	p. 177
The Rector	p. 194
The later years	p. 220
Epilogue	p. 253
Genealogical tables	p. 261
Chronology	p. 264
Dramatis Personae	p. 271
Eponymous taxa	p. 285
Local botanical records	p. 289
Endnotes	p. 293
Bibliography	p. 309
Index	p. 331
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Darwin's Mentor

John Stevens Henslow, 1796 1861

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