The Teaching of Science in Cambridge: Sedgwick, Henslow, Darwin

John Stevens Henslow

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511693304

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.

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A SYLLABUS OF A COURSE OF LECTURES ON GEOLOGY
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SYLLABUS, OF A Course OF BOTANICAL LECTURES
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SYLLABUS OF LECTURES ON BOTANY, WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING COPIOUS DEMONSTRATIONS OF FOURTEEN COMMON PLANTS FOR THE ILLUSTRATION OF TERMS
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FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION
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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
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The Teaching of Science in Cambridge

Sedgwick, Henslow, Darwin

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

A SYLLABUS OF A COURSE OF LECTURES ON GEOLOGY
pp 1-58

SYLLABUS, OF A Course OF BOTANICAL LECTURES
pp 59-76

SYLLABUS OF LECTURES ON BOTANY, WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING COPIOUS DEMONSTRATIONS OF FOURTEEN COMMON PLANTS FOR THE ILLUSTRATION OF TERMS
pp 77-162

FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION
pp 163-194

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
pp 195-214

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Frontmatter pp i-iv

A SYLLABUS OF A COURSE OF LECTURES ON GEOLOGY pp 1-58

SYLLABUS, OF A Course OF BOTANICAL LECTURES pp 59-76

SYLLABUS OF LECTURES ON BOTANY, WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING COPIOUS DEMONSTRATIONS OF FOURTEEN COMMON PLANTS FOR THE ILLUSTRATION OF TERMS pp 77-162

FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION pp 163-194

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 pp 195-214

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

A SYLLABUS OF A COURSE OF LECTURES ON GEOLOGY
pp 1-58

SYLLABUS, OF A Course OF BOTANICAL LECTURES
pp 59-76

SYLLABUS OF LECTURES ON BOTANY, WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING COPIOUS DEMONSTRATIONS OF FOURTEEN COMMON PLANTS FOR THE ILLUSTRATION OF TERMS
pp 77-162

FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION
pp 163-194

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
pp 195-214