The life and letters of Charles Darwin : including an autobiographical chapter . he rest of mylife. The circumstances which led to this second birth—somuch more important than my father then imagined—are con-nected with his Cambridge life, but may be more appropri-ately told in the present chapter. Foremost in the chain ofcircumstances which led to his appointment to the Beagle,was my fathers friendship with Professor Henslow. Hewrote in a pocket-book or diary, which contain a brief recordof dates, &c, throughout his life :— 1831. Christmas.—Passed my examination for B. A. de-gree and kept the
The life and letters of Charles Darwin : including an autobiographical chapter . he rest of mylife. The circumstances which led to this second birth—somuch more important than my father then imagined—are con-nected with his Cambridge life, but may be more appropri-ately told in the present chapter. Foremost in the chain ofcircumstances which led to his appointment to the Beagle,was my fathers friendship with Professor Henslow. Hewrote in a pocket-book or diary, which contain a brief recordof dates, &c, throughout his life :— 1831. Christmas.—Passed my examination for B. A. de-gree and kept the two following terms. During these months lived much with Professor Hens-low, often dining with him and walking with him ; becameslightly acquainted with several of the learned men in Cam-bridge, which much quickened the zeal which dinner partiesand hunting had not destroyed. In the spring paid Mr. Dawes a visit with Ramsay andKirby, and talked over an excursion to Teneriffe. In the * The Beagle did not however make her final and successful start untilDecember THE BEAGLE LAID ASHORE, RIVER SANTA CRUZ HENSLOW. l6l spring Henslow persuaded me to think of Geology, and intro-duced me to Sedgwick. During Midsummer geologised alittle in Shropshire. August.— Went on Geological tour* by Llangollen,Ruthin, Conway, Bangor, and Capel Curig, where I left Pro-fessor Sedgwick, and crossed the mountain to Barmouth. In a letter to Fox (May, 1831), my father writes:— I amvery busy . . and see a great deal of Henslow, whom I donot know whether I love or respect most. His feeling forthis admirable man is finely expressed in a letter which hewrote to Rev. L. Blomefield (then Rev. L. Jenyns), when thelatter was engaged in his Memoir of Professor Henslow (published 1862). The passage f has been made use of in thefirst of the memorial notices written for Nature, and points out that my father, while describing thecharacter of another, is unconsciously giving a most accurate
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