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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