British botanist, priest and geologist (1796-1861)

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John Stevens Henslow. Photograph by Maull & Polyblank.

John Stevens Henslow. Lithograph by T. H. Maguire, 1849.

John Stevens Henslow. Photograph by W. Jeffrey after a bust by T. Woolner.

John Stevens Henslow. Wood engraving, 1861, after Maull & Polyblank.

William Jackson Hooker and Charles Darwin's 'Beagle' plants / Duncan M. Porter.

Darwin's mentor : John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861 / S.M. Walters and E.A. Stow ; foreword by Patrick Bateson.

Henslow of Hitcham : botanist, educationalist, and clergyman / by Jean Russell-Gebbett.

The principles of descriptive and physiological botany / [J.S. Henslow].

Lessons in elementary botany : The part on systematic botany based upon material left in manuscript / by the late Professor Henslow.

Darwin and Henslow : the growth of an idea; letters, 1831-1860 / [by Charles Darwin and John Stevens Henslow], edited by Nora Barlow.

Report on the diseases of wheat / [J.S. Henslow].

On the examination of a hybrid digitalis / J.S. Henslow ; with a preface by S.M. Walters and introduction by V.H. Heywood.

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John Stevens Henslow

Images featuring John Stevens Henslow

Works

The principles of descriptive and physiological botany / [J.S. Henslow].

Lessons in elementary botany : The part on systematic botany based upon material left in manuscript / by the late Professor Henslow.

Darwin and Henslow : the growth of an idea; letters, 1831-1860 / [by Charles Darwin and John Stevens Henslow], edited by Nora Barlow.

Report on the diseases of wheat / [J.S. Henslow].

On the examination of a hybrid digitalis / J.S. Henslow ; with a preface by S.M. Walters and introduction by V.H. Heywood.

John Stevens Henslow

Images featuring John Stevens Henslow

Works

The principles of descriptive and physiological botany / [J.S. Henslow].

Lessons in elementary botany : The part on systematic botany based upon material left in manuscript / by the late Professor Henslow.

Darwin and Henslow : the growth of an idea; letters, 1831-1860 / [by Charles Darwin and John Stevens Henslow], edited by Nora Barlow.

Report on the diseases of wheat / [J.S. Henslow].

On the examination of a hybrid digitalis / J.S. Henslow ; with a preface by S.M. Walters and introduction by V.H. Heywood.

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