John Stevens Henslow

by Thomas Herbert Maguire

$600 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A handsome portrait of a brilliant Anglican scientist. John Stevens Henslow 1796-1861 , passionate about natural history as a boy, grew up to be one of the leading botanists of his time as well as an Anglican minister. He attended Cambridge, made geological observations on the Isle of Wight with Adam Sedgwick and in 1822 became Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Cambridge. In 1824, his scientific interests had shifted to botany. In 1827, he gave up his

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