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DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). For Private Distribution ... Extracts from Letters addressed to Professor Henslow by C. Darwin, Esq. Cambridge: [the University Press for the Cambridge Philosophical Society], Dec. 1, 1835.
8o (208 x 130 mm). Collation: A-B8. 16 pages. Later boards.
DARWIN'S FIRST SEPARATELY PRINTED WORK AND GREATEST RARITY. This unauthorized pamphlet contains extracts from ten letters written by Darwin to Henslow during his five-year voyage on the Beagle. The Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861), Professor of Mineralogy and Botany at Cambridge, was Darwin's friend and mentor in natural history who was responsible for obtaining for Darwin his position as ship's naturalist aboard the Beagle. The pamphlet was printed without Darwin's knowledge for distribution among the members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society "in consequence of the interest which has been excited by some of the Geological notices which they contain, and which were read at a Meeting of the Society on the 16th of November 1835" (p. [1]). Upon learning of its publication Darwin was "a good deal horrified" at Henslow making public "what had been written without care or accuracy" (Barlow, ed., Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle, pp. 140-42). VERY RARE (according to ABPC only two copies have appeared at auction since 1975). Freeman 1; Norman 583.
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DARWIN'S FIRST SEPARATELY PRINTED WORK AND GREATEST RARITY. This unauthorized pamphlet contains extracts from ten letters written by Darwin to Henslow during his five-year voyage on the Beagle. The Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861), Professor of Mineralogy and Botany at Cambridge, was Darwin's friend and mentor in natural history who was responsible for obtaining for Darwin his position as ship's naturalist aboard the Beagle. The pamphlet was printed without Darwin's knowledge for distribution among the members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society "in consequence of the interest which has been excited by some of the Geological notices which they contain, and which were read at a Meeting of the Society on the 16th of November 1835" (p. [1]). Upon learning of its publication Darwin was "a good deal horrified" at Henslow making public "what had been written without care or accuracy" (Barlow, ed., Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle, pp. 140-42). VERY RARE (according to ABPC only two copies have appeared at auction since 1975). Freeman 1; Norman 583.