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Article: Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2003
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S. M. Walters and E. A. Stow, Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861
(Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2001), xx + 338. $65.00
R. D. Keynes, ed. Charles Darwin's "Beagle" Diary
(Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2001), xxx + 464. $26.00
R. D. Keynes, ed. Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes & Specimen Lists from H. M. S. Beagle
(Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2000), xxiv + 430. $150.00
If one needed a reminder of how uncertain the lines are that divide Romantic from Victorian, or the ones that divide science from what we call literature, these books on the early Darwinian milieu would serve the purpose. John Henslow, Darwin's teacher at Cambridge ...