An influential professor of botany at Cambridge, John Stevens Henslow (1796 1861) revived his department and helped develop the current University Botanical Garden for study, teaching and conservation. A mentor to the young Darwin, he proved an educational innovator, initiating the study of individual sciences at Cambridge and practical examinations at the University of London. While rector of Hitcham in Suffolk, he took an interest in local politics, welfare and popular education. This led to the publication in 1860 of this catalogue, which collated the observations and work of amateur...
An influential professor of botany at Cambridge, John Stevens Henslow (1796 1861) revived his department and helped develop the current University Bot...
John Stevens Henslow (1796 1861) was a botanist and geologist. As teacher, mentor and friend to Charles Darwin, it was his introduction that secured for Darwin the post of naturalist on the voyage of the Beagle. While Professor of Botany, Henslow established the Cambridge University Botanic Garden as a resource for teaching and research. Students were encouraged to examine plant specimens carefully, and to record the characteristics of their structures. Henslow would have known how daunting they found the task of becoming proficient with botanical vocabulary, and produced this volume to...
John Stevens Henslow (1796 1861) was a botanist and geologist. As teacher, mentor and friend to Charles Darwin, it was his introduction that secured f...
John Stevens Henslow J. S. Parker (University of Reading, UK)
Professor of botany from 1825 until his death, John Stevens Henslow (1796 1861) revived and greatly advanced the study of plants at Cambridge. His influence helped to make the University Botanic Garden an important centre for teaching and research. Originally published over a period of seventeen years, and now reissued here together, these thirteen papers reveal the impressive breadth of Henslow's scientific knowledge. The first two items, from 1821, address the geology of the Isle of Man and Anglesey respectively, preceding his five-year tenure as chair of mineralogy at Cambridge from 1822....
Professor of botany from 1825 until his death, John Stevens Henslow (1796 1861) revived and greatly advanced the study of plants at Cambridge. His inf...
