• John Stevens Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.C.P.S.: Late Rector of Hitcham and Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge.
  • A chronological list of Henslow’s publications is given in a full length biography, L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (London, 1862).
  • If anyone could lay claim to being one of the greatest Friends of Charles Darwin, it was the Reverend Professor John Stevens Henslow.
  • John Stevens Henslow was a brilliant botanist and geologist, an ordained priest in the Church of England and a generous philanthropist.
  • John Stevens Henslow was a naturalist, a Cambridge academic, most remembered as a friend and mentor of Charles Darwin, inspiring him with a passion for...
  • John Stevens Henslow is the scientist who made Darwin famous. The eminent Cambridge professor of botany was like a father to Darwin.
  • The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of...
  • Portrait of John Stevens Henslow, lithograph by Thomas Maguire, 1849, National Portrait Gallery, London (npg.org.uk).
  • John Stevens Henslow was a British botanist, clergyman, and geologist who popularized botany at the University of Cambridge by introducing new methods of...
  • John Stevens Henslow was born in Maidstone, Kent, in 1796, the eldest of eleven children.