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In addition to the main text, Appendices 4 and 5 have been indexed, and substantial references have also been added from the end-notes. Black-and-white Figures are indicated by italic page numbers, and coloured Plates are given in bold.

Aberystwyth 286 Balfour, John 58, 152 Cambridge (Old Walkerian) 16, Abinger, Lord 117 Barnard, Anne (née Henslow) 20, 28, 53–4, 61, 63, 72, 128–54, Abrolhos Islands 100 35, 108, 127, 217, 240, 256 131, 132, 133, 134 (plan), 219, Act of Toleration 156 Barnard, Robert Cary 20, 216 232 Adiantum henslovianum 288 Barnard, Thomas 20 Cambridge (New, Henslow’s) 17, Afghanistan 150 Bartlow barrows 125 60, 63, 108, 115, 128–54, 138 African animals 7, 8 Barton, Cambridgeshire 92 (site of ), 146 (plan), 232, 244, Agonides henslowii 286 Barton, Walter 239 247, 258–9, 260, 14 Airy, George Biddell 29, 222 de Bary, Anton 211 Chelsea Physic 128 Aiton, William 131 Battle of Waterloo 30 Dublin 143 Allen, David 119–20 Beadon, Dr 14 Edinburgh 143 allotment scheme at Hitcham 181, ‘Beagle’ 80, 84, 94–107, 111, 117, Glasgow 143 190, 209–10 163, 223 Kew 131, 256, 287 Alpine plants 130–1 Voyage map 102 Liverpool 148 Althaea hirsuta 122, 289 Becher, H. W.36 Botany lessons to school-children American trees 142 beetles 84 234, 235, 235–9 Ammodromus (Emberiza) henslowii 88, Bentham, George 216, 219 Bottisham Fen 83, 92 286, 6 Bentham, Jeremy 234 Bottisham Hall 21, 38, 39, 40, 92 ammonite 27, 27 Berkeley, Miles 42, 51, 81, 85, Bourn, Cambridgeshire 92 Ammonites henslowi 286 210–11 British Association 111, 147, 152, Anglesey 29–31 Berlin 36 172, 225–6 Anglican Church, see Church of Berthelot, Pierre 287 British Museum 6, 26, 285 England Biggs, Arthur 128, 130, 133, 138, 144 Brocklebank, Mr (Rector of ‘Apostles’ (Cambridge) 78 Bioscope or Life Dial 220, 221 Teversham) 40 aquatic moss 73, 74 Bishop of Sodor and Man 29 Brogniart, father and son 30 Arboretum 137, 142, 145, 150 Bishop’s Court, Isle of Man 29 Brougham, Lord Henry (Lord Armageddon 157 bladderwort 68,83 Chancellor) 110 artificial fertilisers 202 Blomefield, Leonard (formerly Brougham, William 113 Aster tripolium 289 Jenyns) 295 Brown, Robert 44, 125–6 Atlantic Islands 287 see also Jenyns, Leonard Browne, Janet 78–82, 84, 95, 103 Audubon, John James 85–8, 286 Blume, Carl Ludwig 287 Bryum rubens 292 Augustinian Friars 128 Blythe, Ronald 208, 306 Buckland, William 31, 34–5, 162, Bocking, Essex 160 222 Babington, Charles Cardale 58–60, BookofCommonPrayer 161 Buenos Ayres 100 74, 83–4, 109, 115, 147–8, 150, Botanic Gardens Bufo calamita 83 152, 192, 219, 257, 289, 291 Brussels 143 Bull, Alec 240 Bahia (Salvador) 100–1 Bury St Edmunds 167 Bullen, Catherine 138 Baitsbite (Backsbite) 89, 286 Calcutta 287 Bullen, George 138–9

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Bullen, Revd John of Barnwell 138 Gonville and Caius College 83 Charles II, King 3 Buller, Joseph 55 Herbarium 26, 27, 71, 126, 219, Charles Island, Galapagos 288 Bunbury, Sir Charles 35, 170 250, 257, 289–92 Chatham, Kent 4, 122 Bunbury, Sir Henry 204–5, 209 Jesus College 13, 15, 17,30,94, check-lists of plants 72–3 Bunias orientalis 289 113–14 Chelsworth, Suffolk 198 Burhunt (Boarhunt) 3 King’s College 131,189,196 Cherryhinton, Cambridgeshire 72, burnt orchid 72 Library 87, 232, 254 92 Burwell Chalk-pits 91 New Botany School 257 Chesterford, Cambridgeshire 126 Buxted 13 Professors 11–13, 16, 17, 22–3, Cholsey-cum-Moulsford, Berkshire Buxus sempervirens 125–7, 127 27, 29, 36–40, 49, 51–5, 62, 67, 110–11, 112,194 70, 78–9, 92, 94–5, 108, 128, Church of England 155–6 Cactus speciosus, 125, 7 130 reform 179–80 Calamagrostis canescens 291 Queens’ College 26 Church schools 185 Calvert, F. 30, 40, 114 St John’s College 8, 11–21, 19, 29, Clark, John Willis 28, 223 Camberwell 6, 11 38,113,223 Clark, William 171 Cambridge City Sedgwick Museum 31, 286 Clarke, Edward, father of E. D. Clarke All Saints’ Passage 29 Senate House 19 13 Bene’t Street 128 Sidney Sussex College 52, 139, Clarke, Edward Daniel, Professor Fitzwilliam Museum 86–7, 232 284 of Mineralogy 12–18, 23, Fitzwilliam Street 105 Trinity College 11, 12, 19, 22, 25–7, 34, 49, 51, 54, 56, 130 Fountain Inn 119 35–6, 63, 94, 128, 160, 215–16 Clarke, William 13, 171, 225–6 Free School Lane 128 Trinity Hall College 136, 138–9 Cobbett, William 179, 197, 200 Great St Mary’s Church 131, 157, Woodwardian Museum 29, 31, Coddington microscope 82 161 232–3 Comberton, Cambridgeshire 92 Holy Trinity Church 159 Zoology Museum 257 ‘Common Informer’ 118, 118–19 Little St Mary’s Church 108 Campanula rotundifolia 56 Concepcion 103 Parker’s Piece 108, 109 Campbell, Elizabeth (Marchesa di conchology 89–90 Pembroke Street 128, 133 Spineto) 43 Connaught Place, London 38 Regent Street 119 Canary Islands 93, 287 Copley, Sir John 116 St Benet’s Church 131 de Candolle, Auguste 60, 65–6, 150, coprolites 211–13 Cambridge Philosophical Society 18, 287 Cordier, Professor 31 21, 27–9, 36, 49, 74, 87–8, Canterbury, Dean and Chapter 189, Cottle, Thomas 111 119–21, 224, 287 196 Cottle, Wyatt 111 charter 29 Cape Henslow 4 Countess of Morton 88 museum 123 Carex caryophyllea 291 Creation, theology of 162 purpose-built house 29 ‘Carex fulvus’ 72, 73 Cripps, John Marten 14, 15 Cambridge University Carex hostiana 72–3 Crompton, Gigi 289 Archives 147 Carex sylvatica 291 Crypteronia 287 Botanic Garden, see Botanic Carex vesicaria 291 Cumming, James 12, 13, 29, 43, 49, Gardens Carthamus tinctorius 71 62, 78 Botanical Museum 16, 71, 121, ‘catastrophism’ 31, 34, 163 Curtis, John 89 128, 257 Cedars 150 Curtis, William 56 Christ’s College 43–4, 79–80, ‘celts’ 250–1 216, 287 Centaurea solstitialis 289–90 Dalton’s Atomic Theory 50 Clare College 114 Ceratites henslowii 286 Darwin, Caroline 100 Corpus Christi College 87, 118 Chafy, William 139 Darwin, Charles 3, 19, 22, 34, 36, Downing College 20, 114, 232 Chagas disease 103 43–8, 50–1, 58, 62, 67, 69,

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78–108, 110, 111, 161–73, 223–4, Drepanocladus revolvens 292 fresh-water mussel 285 237–8, 244, 251–6, 260, 288, 5 Drosera 69 Fumaria vaillantii 122, 289 autobiography 78–9, 82, 260 influence of Henslow’s botany earthquake (Valdivia) 103 Gage, J. 125 253–6 Edge Lane, Liverpool 148 Gainsborough (painter) 39 marriage 45–7 Edinburgh University 29, 31, 55, 61, Galapagos islands 99, 101–5, 188 On the Origin of Species 95, 107, 162, 63–4, 78, 120 Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire 77, 83, 169–70 Divinity Faculty 64 92–3 species-hybridisation 166–7 Medicine Faculty 63–4 Gardiner, Walter 257 student days 78–107 Museum 29 Garnons, William L. T. 52 voyage of the ‘Beagle’ and return of Natural History Society 120 Genesis 34, 162 his collections 96–104 Elodea canadensis 291 geological excursions 23, 95 Darwin, Emma (née Wedgwood) 44, Eltisley, Cambridgeshire 92 Geological Society of London 26, 45 Elymus caninus 291 119, 162–3 Darwin, Erasmus (brother of Emberiza Henslowii 286 George, A. S. 287 Charles) 50, 78 Enfield, Middlesex 5 Gesnera douglasii 144 Darwin, Erasmus (grandfather of Enlightenment 158 Gilbert-Carter, Humphrey 258–9, Charles) 296 Ennals, Robert 239–40 289 Darwin, Francis 83–4 Equisetum hyemale 183, 184 Glasgow Chair of Botany 56 Darwin, Robert 3 Escourt, Thomas 209 Gloucester, Bishop of 14 Darwin, Susanna 3, 94 Euphrasia micrantha 27, 289 Glyde, John 197, 200, 205–6 David, Mary 4 Exeter, Devon 19 Gog-Magog hills 92, 150 Davies, Richard 64 exsiccatae 75 Goniolites henslowii 286 Davy, Sir Humphrey 36, 38 eyebright 27, 289 Gorham, George 25–6 Death, William 205 ‘Gothic cottage’ in Regent Street, Dawes, Richard 114–15, 199, Falkland Islands 101 Cambridge 108 242–3 Fallows, Fearon 19 Graham Commission 152 Dendrotrophe 287 Farish, William 16 Graham, John 79 Denson, John 124 Fawcett, Mr 118 Graham, Robert 55–6, 143 Dent, Westmorland 22 Fissidens incurvus 292 Grand Tour 14 Devil’s Ditch (Dyke), Fitch, Walter 240–1 Graves, Richard 253 Cambridgeshire 91–2 Fitton, Dr 44 Gray,J.E. 286 Dickens, Charles 206 Fitzroy, Captain Robert 94, 101, 103, Great Exhibition 226, 234, 258 Dicranoweisia cirrata 292 117 Green, Vivian H. H. 213–14 Digitalis 67, 81–2, 163, 4 Fitzwilliam, Hon W.C.Wentworth Greenough, Mr 162 Dillon, Mr and Mrs 6 88 Greenwood, William, 87, 298 Dionaea 68 Fleury, Christopher 222 Gregory, Tighe 200 Discites complanatus 286 flint implements 126 Greville, Robert Kaye 55–7 Dissenters 115, 129–31, 191, flour from potatoes 211, 212 Guadalcanal 4 198–9 Fontinalis antipyretica 73, 74 Doctrine of the Trinity 155–6, 161 Forbes, Edward 224 Hadleigh, Suffolk 160, 192, 197, 202 Donn, James 128, 131 forget-me-nots 290 Hadleigh Farmers Club 202–3 Dorset, Duke of 14 Foster, Thomas C. 205 Harper, John, Churchwarden 181, Down House 253 Fox, William Darwin 43–4, 100, 102, 196, 210, 239 Downes, John 74, 290 161 Haviland, John 54 Dracaena draco 93 Freiburg 36 Hawkins, Mr (teacher of Henslow) 6 Dragon Tree 93 Frere, John 250 Heberden, Mary, née Wollaston 38

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Heberden, William 38 concern about health 243–4 Proctorial duties 118–19 Herbert, William 166–7 concern with poverty and Professor of Botany 51–3, 64, 92, Helix aspersa 91 deprivation 188–90, 201–9 108, 128, 130, 285, 287 ‘Helix Madingleyensis’ 90 coprolites 211–13 Professor of Mineralogy 49–50, Helix pomatia 90–1 criticism of Henslow 239–40 130 Helleborus viridis 73 Curacy at Little St Mary’s 108 publications 119–27 Henslow, Alexina Frederica 5 Darwin introduced to Lyell’s book religious tolerance 159 Henslow, Ann 5 34 removal to Hitcham 178 et seq. Henslow, Anne 20, 35, 108, 127, 217, Downing College 115 rural crime 197–201 256 excursions for parishioners seed dormancy and longevity 241 see also Barnard, Anne 228–34, 230, 10 self-help clubs 188–9 Henslow, Charlotte 6, 127 experiments on hybridisation sermons 156–61, 190–1 Henslow, Edward 5 122, 163–73, 164 soirées 80–1, 85, 114 Henslow, Eleanor 127 Farmer’s Club 202–3 specimens in Cambridge Henslow, Frances (née Stevens) 5, Fasciculus (pressed plants for University Herbarium 250, 253 sale) 75–6 289–92, 13 Henslow, Frances Harriet 108, 152, field excursions 65, 83–4, 115 student at Cambridge 11–21 181, 236, 245–6, 248, 254 final illness 251–2 text-book 66 Henslow, George 108, 181, 211, 216, financial worries 108–9 University teaching reform 228–32, 239, 256 friendship with Hooker 56–7 215–16 Henslow, Harriet, née Jenyns 21, 35, funeral 253 Vestry Meetings at Hitcham 194–7 38–48, 45, 92, 95, 114, 184, geological illustrations 32, 33 village education 185–7, 201, 256 192–3, 245, 250, 253 Henslow’s Sparrow 88, 286, 6 village school 185–7 Henslow, Henry David 289 Henslow’s Swimming Crab 19, ‘Walkerian Reader’ in Botanic Henslow, John Prentis 4 20,285 Garden 53, 128 Henslow(e), Sir John 4, 1 ‘herborizing’ 70, 72 wall-charts and illustrations 62, Henslow, John Jenyns 108 houses in Cambridge 108 240–2, 242, 3 Henslow, John Stevens inaugural lecture 50 Wrangler 19 abolition of religious tests for instructions to Darwin re plant young man 20, 21 University entrance 114–15 collecting 98–100, 98–9 zoological interest 6–8, 89–92, Address to University re New involvement in politics 115–19, 285–7, 2 Garden 108–9, 136–7 177–80 Henslow, Leonard Ramsay 108, 243, agricultural improvement 211–12 Ipswich Museum 152, 221–5 246, 251 allotment schemes 181, 210 ‘King’s Reader’ in Botany 52 Henslow, Louisa Mary 108, 127, 181, ancestors 3–5, 262–3 Latin names and terms 234–7 250 antiquarian research 125–6 lectures in Botany 57–60, 59, Henslow, Thomas (junior) 4 artificial fertilisers 202–3, 211–13 64–5 Henslow, Thomas (senior) 3–4 botanical collecting 26–7 lectures to parishioners 183 Henslowe, Frances Hooper 4, 248 botanical lessons for school- letters to Darwin re marriage 46–7 Henslowe, Philip 3 children 234–9, 235 Linnean Society Fellowship 18 Henslowe, Ralph 3 Cambridge Philosophical Society London Unversity 214–15 Henslowe, Thomas 3 30–3 Loudon’s publications 120–4 Henslowia 287 check-lists of plants 72–3 palaeontology 183, 250 Herb Paris 73 Cholsey, Vicar of 110–12 Paris Exhibition 1855 246–7 Herbert, John Maurice 82 Christian faith 37, 155–73 pensioner at St John’s College 12 Herbaria ‘Common Informer’ inscription political activities 118–19, 230 Cambridge University 26, 27, 118 portraits 220,253 71–2, 126, 219, 250, 257, 289–92

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Kew 131 Ilex perado 218 Knight, F. 112, 178 Lemann’s 216–19 incendiaries 197 Knight Bruce, James Lewis 117 Lindley’s 219 International Codes of Botanical Knights, George 245 ‘herborizing’ 70, 72 Nomenclature 169, 287 Hieracium maculatum 291 Ipswich Museum 52, 152, 216, Lamb, John 116 High Church 160 221–8, 227, 240, 245, 253 Lapidge, Edward 139–40, 141, 142, Hildyard, William 138 Ipswich Society 223–4 144–5 Himalayas 150 Irish Elk 29 Lathyrus aphaca 254, 255 Hind, John 19, 291 Irish potato famine 191, 210 Leach, William Elford 6, 7, 18, 19, Histon, Cambridgeshire 112 Isle of Man 26, 29, 30, 286, 289 26–8, 70, 224, 285–6 Hitcham, Suffolk 28, 41, 58, 111, Isle of Wight 23, 25, 27 Lefevre, J. G. 19, 22 115–16, 147, 152–4, 156, 160–1, Isothecium myurum 292 Leiden 287 176–261 passim, 176,286,291,11 Leighton, William Allport 83 allotments 181 Jackdaws in Botanic Garden 133–5 Lemann, Charles Morgan 216–19 Bishop of Ely’s Visitation 194, 239 Jemania henslowana 286 Lent Assizes (Cambridgeshire) 117 Hitcham Hall 176, 180–1, 196 Jenyns, Charles 39 Leptosynapta inhaerens 286 Hitcham House 180–5, 192, 8 Jenyns, Charlotte 39 Leucanthemum vulgare 253, 11 Hitcham (Great) Wood 192, 240, Jenyns, George 39 Levaillant’s Travels in Africa 7, 87 241, 291, 12 Jenyns, Harriet see Henslow, Harriet Lima 104 Horticultural Show, 186 Jenyns, George Leonard 38–9, Lindley, John 41, 65, 211, 219 Rectory, see Hitcham House 116–17 Linnaeus, Carolus 15, 62, 65 Tithe Map 194–7 Jenyns, Leonard 4–8, 12–13, 19–21, Linnaean collections 61 Village Excursions 152–4, 154, 25, 29, 36, 38–9, 51–2, 61–2, Linnean Society of London 61 228–34, 230 69–70, 80–1, 89, 92, 94–5, Transactions 119 Village school 185–7 110–11, 113–14, 120–3, 125, 127, Little Cornard, Suffolk 223–4 Hobson’s Conduit 150 155–7, 170–3, 190, 203, 210, Locke, John 158 Hooker, Frances Harriet (née 213, 222, 227, 245, 250–1, 253, London University 213, 216 Henslow) 108, 152, 181, 236, 256, 285–6 Lophospermum erubescente-scandens 167 245–6, 248, 254 Jenyns, Mary 39 Loudon, John Claudius 120–2, 124, Hooker, Joseph 48, 56, 105, 152, 169, Jenyns, Mary, née Heberden 38–40 150 171–2, 181, 214, 234–7, 245–6, Jenyns, Soame 39, 156 Lowe, Richard Thomas 98, 287 248, 251–2, 254–6, 288 Jephson, Thomas 11, 49 Lubbock, John 36 Hooker, William Jackson 40, 56–7, Jephson, William 6, 11, 49 Luckey, John 196 125, 129, 143, 145–7, 159, 182, Jermyn, Mrs 40 Luzula pilosa 290 244–50 Juncus compressus 292 Luzula sylvatica 290 Holbrook, M. 119 Lyell, Charles 34–5, 44, 95, 104, 162, Hope, John 61, 63–4 Keeling Isles (Cocos Isles) 104, 105 170, 222 Horner, Joanna 35 Kent botanical records 289 Lyell, Mary 35, 44 Horner, Leonard 44 Keown, Mrs and Miss 43 Horner, Leonora 4 Kew Gardens Macauley, Lord 159 Hottonia 69 archives 287 Macleay, Alexander 18 Hoxne, Suffolk 250 Museum of Economic Botany 248 Macroplea equiseti 89 Hughes, T. M. 24–6, 223 see also Hooker, William Jackson Madeira 216, 287 Humboldt, Alexander von 44, 93, 105 Kinnordy House, Forfarshire 34 Maerns, B. and R. 286 Huttonian school of geological Kirby, Henry 114 Magellan Straits 101 controversy 31 Kirby, William 52, 222–4 Magnol, Pierre 285 Huxley, Thomas Henry 172 Kirkpatrick, Louisa (née Henslow) 5 Magnolia 285

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Maidstone, Kent 4 normal curve of statistics 74 Picea excelsa 74, 76 Malcolm, John 24 Notelaea excelsa 287 Pilgrim, John 196 Malcolm, Kate 24 Pinniger, Richard Broome 111, 194 Mapletoft Estates 181, 196 Oliver, Daniel 254, 256–7 Pinus gerardiana 150, 151 Mapletoft, Robert 194, 196 ‘Open Trust’ places of worship 156 Pisidium henslowanum 285–6 Marchesa di Spineto (Elizabeth Opuntia 105, 106, 124 Platanus orientalis 17 Campbell) 42–3 Orchis morio 73 Playfair, Lyon 246 Marquis (Marchese) di Spineto 43 Orchis ustulata 72 Plymouth 97 Martin, Edward 125 Oriental Plane 17 Pogonatum aloides 292 Martin, Thomas 233, 243 Ornithogalum nutans 71, 290 poll-men 19, 30, 79, 108, 216 Martyn, John 67, 71 Orthotrichum affine 292 Polybius henslowi 19, 20,285 Martyn, Thomas 16, 51–2, 54, 62–3, Orthotrichum diaphanum 292 Polypodium vulgare 250, 13 71–2, 128, 130–2 Otter, William 14 pondweed 27 Materia Medica 38 Owen, Richard 172 Poor Law 205–7 Mathews, John Staverton 180 ox-eye daisy 253, 11 Porter, Christina 19, 20 Maund, Benjamin 41, 124–5, 167–8 Oxford University Porter, D. M. 288 meristic variation 73–4, 75 Exeter College 34 Porter, Thomas 19 mice 254–5 Huxley–Wilberforce Debate 172 Porter, William 19, 285 Michell, Thomas Pennuddock 13 Pembroke College 194 Portsmouth 3, 4 Mill, John Stuart 234 Professor of Geology 31 Potamogeton polygonifolius 27, 289 millenarianism 157–8 Potter, M. C. 257 Miller, Charles 128 Paley, William 79, 97, 158, 161 Pottia davalliana 292 Miller, Philip 128, 131 Pallas, P.S. 15 Prentis, Ann 4, 155 mistletoe 287 Palmerston, Lord 115–16 Prentis, Damaris 4 Morley, C. 286 Paris quadrifolia 73 Prentis, Edward 4 Monte Video 96, 100 Paris 30–1, 246–7 Prentis, Walter 5 Murray, Andrew 145–50, 149, 152, Parker’s Piece, Cambridge 108, Presbyterianism 155–6 169, 291 109 Preston, Chris D. 292 Murray, Dr 29 Payne, Joseph 258 Primula 122, 163–5, 164,172 mutability of species 163 Peace of Amiens 14, 30 Prince Albert 152, 226, 227 Myosotis laxa 290 Peacock, George 28, 94, 114 Proctor, Michael 67 Myosotis scorpioides 290 Penny Post, 1840 201, 202 Prolecanites henslowii 287 Myriophyllum 69 Pera henslowiana 286 prostitutes 118–19 Persecuted Christians 191 Pryme, George 117 natterjack toad 83, 93 Petrifying Spring 73 Public Libraries Act 1850 227 ‘natural religion’ 158–9 Pettit-Stevens, H. W. 114 Pulling, William 52 Natural Science Tripos 58 Peziza 90 Pulteney, Richard 128–9 Natural Sciences 26, 78–9, 216 Philosophical Society, Cambridge see pupil teachers 238–9 Nautilus complanatus 286 Cambridge Philosophical New Botanic Garden, see Botanic Society Queen Victoria 226 Gardens Phoradendron henslovii (Hook. fil.) Newman, John Henry 160 Robins 288 Railway 152, 228 Newton, Sir Isaac 18, 64 phyllotaxis 74, 76 Ransome, George 222, 226, 228 Newtonian mathematics 79 Physic Garden 128 (Chelsea), 137 Ransome, Robert 222, 226 Noah’s Flood 31, 34, 162 ‘Phytography’ 65 Ramsay, Isle of Man 29 Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants Phytophthora infestans 211 Ramsay, Marmaduke 93–4, 114 169 Picconia 287 Rathbone, Mrs 88

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Ray Club 52 Senate House examination 11, 12, 14, stoat 123 Ray, John 163–5 18, 19, 96, 108, 161 Stow(e), Jane 187 Reform Act 1831 57 Sequoiadendron giganteum 248, 249 Stratton, James 152 reforming scientists 35 Sewell, Harriet 238–9 Stretham, Cambridgeshire 199 religious tests, abolition of 114–15 ‘Sexual System’ of Linnaeus 65–6 Sunday School 41 ‘revealed religion’ 156, 158–9 Shaw-Lefevre, John George, see sundew 69 Revelation, Book of 157 Lefevre, J. G. Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgshire Rhynchostegiella tenella 292 Shelford Common, Cambridgeshire 85, 92, 210 Rhynchospora alba 77 72 Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire Riccia fluitans 292 Shrewsbury 3 289 Rice, Thomas Spring (Lord Sidney, Edwin 223–4 Swainson, William 27 Monteagle) 117 Simeon, Charles 158–60 Synapta henslowana 286 Richardson, Sir John 36, 49, 52–4 Sittingbourne, Kent 4 Rio de Janeiro 96–7, 100 Skepper, Edmund 242 Tatham, Ralph 149 Rochester, Kent 3, 7 Slade, Sir Thomas 4 taxonomy 65, 297 Rockbeare House, Devon 19 Smith, James Edward 60–1, 63, 65, Taylor, T. J. 256 Rodwell, John Medows 83 129–31 Tellina henslowana 285 Roman snail 90–1 contacts with Continental Tenerife 93–6 Romano-British burial chamber botanists 61, 129 Tetrapanax (Aralia) papyrifera 257 125–6 importance of Enlightenment Thermopylae 17 Romilly, Joseph 28–9, 42–3, 105, scholars 61 Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of 114, 156, 182, 192, 296 influence on Henslow 60–1 England 155, 161 Rose, Hugh James 160 publications 60–1 tithes 179, 194–6 Rougham, Suffolk 125 solifluction (‘soil-creep’) 255–6 Toft, Cambridgeshire 92 Royal College of Physicians 57–8, Solomon Islands 4 Town Lands Charity 210 69, 178 South Kensington Museum 258 ‘transmutation’ of species 169 Royal Society of London 36, 38, 119, Sowerby, James 286 Tufton, Henry 14 163 Sphagnum auriculatum 292 Turner, Henry 167–8 Ruck, Amy 255 di Spineto, see Marchesa and Marquis typhus 244 Russell, Anthony 190, 304 (Marchese) Russell, Lord John 247 Spinning House 118–19 Underwood, Thomas Richard 30–1 Russell-Gebbett, Jean 245, 305 Sprengel, Christian Konrad 67, 297 ‘uniformitarianism’ 31, 162 Sprengel, Kurt 297 Union House 206 safflower 71 spruce 74, 76 Unitarianism 155 Salvador (Bahia) 101 Squirel, Henry 204–5 Ussher, Archbishop 162 Samuel, George 6 Stamp Tax on newspapers 201 Utricularia 68,69,83 Sanford, Martin 291 Stanley, Edward 222–3 Schistidium apocarpum 292 Starkie, Thomas 115 Valdivia 103 Schultes, Josef August 129–33 State education system 234 Valparaiso 101–3 sea-cucumber 286 statistics 74 Van Riper, A. B. 251 Second Coming 157–8 Steinberg, Count 129 variability of species 163 sedge 72–3, 77 Stellaria holostea 73 Veronica persica 290 Sedgwick, Adam 22–37, 49, 51, Stephens, James Francis 6, 7, 18, 27, Vestry meeting 194–7 93–6, 104, 113–14, 119, 125, 28, 70 Venus fly-trap 68 162–3, 169–73, 199, 222–3, 226, Stevens, Ann 253 Vesuvius, model of 16 232, 251 Stevens, H. W. Pettit 114 Victorian workhouses 206 self-help clubs 188–9 Stevens, Thomas 5 Vicia bithynica 289

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Vidler, Alec 160 Welch, David 290 Whitwell, Cambridgeshire 73 Viscum album 287–8 Wellington, Duke of 116 Wilberforce, Samuel 172 Viscum henslovii 288 Wellingtonia tree 248–9 Wiggins, I. L. 288 volcanic eruption (Valdivia) 103 Wernerian school of geological Wilson’s Grammar School 11 controversy 31 Wolffe, J. 157 Walker, Richard 63, 128 Wernerian Society (Edinburgh) Wollaston, Francis 38 Walkerian Botanic Garden, see 120 Wollaston, Francis John Hyde 38 Botanic Gardens Whewell, William 21, 28–9, 31, 36, Wollaston, William Hyde 38 wall-charts 16, 56, 240–1, 242 43, 54, 113–14, 125, 145, 156, Wood, James 115, 117 Wallich, Dr Nathaniel 224, 287 169, 197, 199, 215–16, 219, 226, Woolwich 4 Watford and Nockolds (Solicitors) 244 Wooster, David 226 139 Whewells Court 21, 28 Worsley, Thomas 115 Watson, John 139, 143–4 Whichford, Warwickshire 194 Wotton, William 13 Wattisham, Suffolk 191 Whig Reform Act 1832 116 Wedgwood, Emma 45–7 White, Gilbert 84 Youmans, Edward 258 Wedgwood, Josiah 3 Whitehouse, Harold L. K. 292 Youmans, Eliza Ann 258, 259 Weissia longifolia 292 Whitewood, Cambridgeshire 93

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