Sentence examples for henslow from inspiring English sources

It was while meandering along the paths that loop around the garden that Darwin and Henslow would debate such theories; and it is this Aristotelian tradition of strolling, deep in discussion, that the architects have tried to manifest in the form of their building.

Henslow graduated from St . Johns College at Cambridge in 1818 and then turned to natural history, making geological expeditions to the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man with the English zoologist Adam Sedgwick, with whom he later established the Cambridge Philosophical Society (1821).

In order to persuade farmers to apply scientific methods to their operations, Henslow gave public lectures on the fermentation of manure and wrote newsletters for publication in local newspapers.

Fired by Alexander von Humboldt's account of the South American jungles in his Personal Narrative of Travels, Darwin jumped at Henslow's suggestion of a voyage to Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America, aboard a rebuilt brig, HMS Beagle.

Timed the chirps of a Henslow's sparrow, which sings in its sleep.

Conceived as a practical outdoor lab, the gardens were planted with exotic trees and a series of herbaceous "systematic beds", all laid out according to Henslow's theory of species.

In 1851 Joseph Hooker married Frances Henslow, the daughter of a botanist.

Here he was shown the conservative side of botany by a young professor, the Reverend John Stevens Henslow, while that doyen of Providential design in the animal world, the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, took Darwin to Wales in 1831 on a geologic field trip.

The site, in south Cambridge, has a long history as a cradle of botanical research, since the university gardens were established here in the 1830s by John Stevens Henslow, tutor of Charles Darwin.

John Stevens Henslow, (born Feb. 6, 1796, Rochester, Kent, Eng. died May 16, 1861, Hitcham, Norfolk), British botanist, clergyman, and geologist who popularized botany at the University of Cambridge by introducing new methods of teaching the subject.

Plenty of Darwin's scientific contemporaries, men like John Stevens Henslow, Charles Lyell, Asa Gray, George Wright, Alexander Winchell, and James Dana, could accommodate their Christian beliefs with the new theory.