Collects and dissects marine animals.
Attends meetings of the Plinian Royal Medical and Wernerian societies.
Attends lectures on geology and zoology.
Meets Sir J. Mackintosh.
Spends three years at Cambridge studying for the ministry.
Phrenological characteristics.
Reads Paley with delight.
Attends Henslow's lectures on botany.
His taste for pictures and music.
His interest in entomology.
Friendship of Prof. Henslow and its influence upon his career.
Meets Dr. Whewell.
Reads Humboldt's 'Personal Narrative' and Herschel's 'Introduction to the Study of Natural History.'
Begins the study of geology.
Field-work in North Wales.
Voyage of the "Beagle".
Receives a proposal to sail in the "Beagle".
Starts for Cambridge and thence to London.
'Voyage of the "Beagle" the most important event in my life.'
Sails in the "Beagle".
His letters read before the Philosophical Society of Cambridge.
Returns to England.
Begins his 'Journal of Travels.'
Takes lodgings in London.
Begins preparing MS. for his 'Geological Observations.'
Arranges for publication of 'Zoology of the Voyage of the "Beagle".
Opens first note-book of 'Origin of Species.'
Meets Lyell and Robert Brown.
Marries.
Works on his 'Coral Reefs.'
Reads papers before Geological Society.
Acts as secretary of the Geological Society.
Residence at Down.
His absorption in science.
His publications.
'Geological Observations' published.
Success of the 'Journal of Researches.'
Begins work on 'Cirripedia.' visits to water-cure establishments.
Work on the 'Origin of Species.'
Reads 'Malthus on Population.'
Begins notes on 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.'
Becomes interested in cross-fertilisation of flowers.
Publishes papers on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Publishes 'Descent of Man.'
First child born.
Publishes translation and sketch of 'Life of Erasmus Darwin.'
Methods of work.
Mental qualities.
Fond of novel reading.
A good observer.
Habits and personal appearance.
Ill health.
Fondness for dogs.
Correspondence.
Business habits.
Scientific reading.
Wide interest in science.
Journals of daily events.
Holidays.
Relation to his family and friends.
His account of his little daughter Annie.
How he brought up his children.
Manner towards servants.
As a host.
Modesty.
Not quick at argument.
Intercourse with strangers.
Use of simple methods and few instruments.
Perseverance.
Theorizing power.
Books used only as tools.
Use of note-books and portfolios.
Courteous tone toward his reader.
Illustration of his books.
Consideration for other authors.
His wife's tender care.
Cambridge life.
His character.
Intention of going into the church.
Appointment to the "Beagle".
The voyage.
Life at sea.
Views on slavery.
Excursion across the Andes.
Meets Sir J. Herschel.
Reaches home.
Life at London and Cambridge.
Residence at Cambridge.
Works on his 'Journal of Researches.'
Appointed secretary of Geological Society.
Visits Glen Roy.
Admiration for Lyell's 'Elements.'
Increasing ill-health.
At work on 'Coral Reefs.'
His religious views.
Life at Down, 1842-1854.
Reasons for leaving London.
Early impressions of Down.
Theory of coral islands.
Time spent on geological books.
Purchases farm in Lincolnshire.
Dines with Lord Mahon.
Daughter Annie dies.
His children.
Growth of views on 'Origin of Species.'
Plan for publishing 'Sketch of 1844,' in case of his sudden death.
Pigeon fancying enterprise.
Collecting plants.
General acceptance of his work.
Publishes 'Origin of Species.'
Elected correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia).
His views on the civil war in the United States.
At Bournemouth.
His view of Lyell's 'Antiquity of Man.'
Receives the Copley medal.
Elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh.
His conscientiousness in argument.
His intercourse with horticulturists and stock-raisers.
Elected to the Royal Society of Holland.
Made a knight of the Prussian order Pour le Merite.
Sits for a bust.
Declines a nomination for the degree of D.C.L. because of ill-health.
His connection with the South American Missionary Society.
His answers to Galton's questions on nature and nurture.
Sits for portrait to W. Ouless.
Elected to Physiological Society.
Replies to Miss Cobbe on vivisection in the "Times".
Publishes the 'Life of Erasmus Darwin.'
Sits for memorial portraits.
Receives various honours.
Makes a present to the Naples Zoological Station.
His answers to Galton's questions on the faculty of visualising.
Offers aid to Fritz Muller.
Replies to Sir W. Thomson on abyssal fauna.
His botanical work.
Builds a greenhouse.
Publishes work on the fertilisation of orchids.
Studies the bloom on leaves and fruit.
Studies the causes of variability.
Studies the production of galls.
Studies aggregation.
Encourages Torbitt's work on the potato disease.
Aids the preparation of the Kew 'Index of Plant-names.'
Death.
Burial in Westminster Abbey.
List of works.
DARWIN & Wallace's joint paper on variation.
DARWIN, Edward, author of 'Gamekeeper's Manual.'
DARWIN, Mrs. Emma (Wedgwood), letter to.
DARWIN, Erasmus (born 1731), poet and philosopher.
Character of.
Life published in English.
DARWIN, Erasmus (born 1759).
DARWIN, Erasmus Alvey (1804-1881), educated as a physician.
Character of.
Carlyle's sketch of his character.
Miss Wedgwood's letter on his character.
Letter from.
His death.
DARWIN, Robert, of Elston Hall.
Charles Darwin's estimate of.
DARWIN, Robert Waring, (born 1724), publishes 'Principia Botanica.'
DARWIN, Robert Waring, (born 1767), studies medicine at Leyden.
Settles in Shrewsbury.
Marries Susannah Wedgwood.
His son Charles's description of him.
His six children.
Letters to.
DARWIN, Susan, letters to.
DARWIN, William, of Marton, first known ancestor of Charles.
DARWIN, William, son of Richard, appointed yeoman of the Royal Armoury.
DARWIN, William (1655).
DARWYN, Richard, of Marton, mentioned.