See also:JOHN See also:STEVENS See also:HENSLOW (1796-1861)
, See also:English botanist ' and geologist, was See also:born at See also:Rochester on the 6th of See also:February 1796
.
From his See also:father, who was a See also:solicitor in that See also:city, he imbibed a love of natural See also:history which largely influenced his career
.
He was educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated as sixteenth wrangler in 1818, the See also:year in which See also:Sedgwick became Woodwardian See also:professor of See also:geology
.
He accompanied Sedgwick in 1819 during a tour in the Isle of See also:Wight, and there he learned his first lessons in geology
.
He also studied See also:chemistry under Professor See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Cumming and See also:mineralogy under E
.
D
.
See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke
.
In the autumn of 1819 he made some valuable observations on the geology of the Isle of See also:Man (Trans
.
Geol
.
See also:Soc., 1821), and in 1821 he investigated the geology of parts of See also:Anglesey, the results being printed in the first See also:volume of the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (1821), the See also:foundation of which society was originated by Sedgwick and See also:Henslow
.
Meanwhile, Henslow had studied mineralogy with considerable zeal, so that on the See also:death of Clarke he was in 1822 appointed professor of mineralogy in the university at Cambridge
.
Two years later he took See also:holy orders
.
See also:Botany, how-ever, had claimed much of his See also:attention, and to this See also:science he became more and more attached, so that he gladly resigned the See also:chair of mineralogy in 1825, to succeed to that of botany
.
As a teacher both in the class-See also:room and in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field he was eminently successful
.
To him See also:Darwin largely owed his See also:attachment to natural history, and also his introduction to See also:Captain See also:Fitzroy of H.M.S
.
" Beagle." In 1832 Henslow was appointed See also:vicar of Cholseycum-Moulsford in See also:Berkshire, and in 1837 See also:rector of Hitcham in See also:Suffolk, and at this latter See also:parish he lived and laboured, endeared to all who knew him, until the See also:close of his See also:life
.
His energies were devoted to the improvement of his parishioners, but his See also:influence was See also:felt far and wide
.
In 1843 he discovered nodules of coprolitic origin in the Red See also:Crag at See also:Felixstowe in Suffolk, and two years later he called attention to those also in the Cambridge See also:Greensand and remarked that they might be of use in See also:agriculture
.
Although Henslow derived no benefit, these discoveries led to the See also:establishment of the phosphate See also:industry in Suffolk and See also:Cambridgeshire; and the See also:works proved lucrative until the introduction of See also:foreign See also:phosphates
.
The museum at See also:Ipswich, which was established in 1847, owed much to Henslow, who was elected See also:president in 185o, and then superintended the arrangement of the collections
.
He died at Hitcham on the 16th of May 1861
.
His publications included A See also:Catalogue of See also:British See also:Plants (1829; ed
.
2, 1835); Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany (1835); See also:Flora of Suffolk (with E
.
Skepper) (186o)
.
Memoir, by the Rev
.
Leonard See also:Jenyns (1862)
.
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