LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. XXIX 
Henslow’s departure from Cambridge, not a single botanical paper, 
and very few on other branches of natural history, have been 
contributed to its Philosophical Transactions, of which he was 
one of the founders. 
“ In 1823 Professor Henslow married a daughter of the Rev. 
George Jenyns, of Bottisham Hall, in Cambridgeshire; and in 
1825 he took orders as curate of Little St. Mary’s, in Cambridge. 
In 1833 he was presented by Lord Brougham, then Chancellor, 
to the Vicarage of Cholsey-cum-Moulsford, in Berkshire, where he 
resided during the summer months of three years, passing the 
rest of his time at Cambridge as before. In 1837 he was trans- 
ferred by the Crown to the valuable Rectory of Hitcham in Suffolk, 
and there from 1839 until his death, he resided throughout the 
year, with the exception of six weeks of the Easter term, when he 
lectured during the week in Cambridge; for many years returning 
to Hitcham for the Sunday service. 
“To the duties of his new position Professor Henslow brought 
the same energy, and the same love of bettering his fellow-crea- 
tures as had distinguished him in Cambridge, together with in- 
ereased fervor for teaching, matured faculties, and a deep sense of 
his responsibility in ministering to the spiritual and temporal 
wants of a large and wofully neglected parish. His flock were 
notorious for belief in witchcraft, drunkenness, poaching, sheep- 
stealing and other immoral habits ; they consisted of field labourers 
living in wretched hovels, and of farmers, who, being intellectually 
little better than their servants, were doggedly opposed to any 
change in their moral or physical condition. Here was work 
requiring all Professor Henslow’s indomitable energy and mulkti- 
farious resources ; no one knew better than he what is the result 
of throwing good seed on stony ground, and he consequently laid — 
his plans for tilling and fertilizing the ground committed to his cul- 
ture with such sagacity and skill, and carried them out with such 
unflinching steadfastness of purpose, that within less than a quar- 
ter of a century he reaped his reward hundred-fold, and died 
with a harvest garnered. It is quite impossible to estimate the 
amount and kind of moral courage required for a clergyman to 
break down the sturdy opposition to change of the farmers of _ 
twenty years ago; but his neighbours had to do with one who 
never determined on a plan of action without carrying it into suc- 
cessful effect, and whose downright honesty, frank bearing, and 
imperturbable temper, were weapons proof against the outbursts 
of prejudice, avarice, and malice with which he was assailed. 
