CHAPTER XIV. 



THE SPREAD OF EVOLUTION. 



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The beginning of the year 18G1 saw my father engaged 

 on the third edition (2000 copies) of the Origin, which was 

 largely corrected and added to, and was published in April, 

 1801. 



On July 1, he started, with his family, for Torquay, 

 where he remained until August 27 a holiday which he 

 characteristically enters in his diary as " eight weeks and a 

 day." The house he occupied was in Hesketh Crescent, a 

 pleasantly placed row of houses close above the sea, some- 

 what removed from what was then the main body of the 

 town, and not far from the beautiful cliffed coast-line in 

 the neighbourhood of Anstey's Cove. 



During the Torquay holiday, and for the remainder of 

 the year, he worked at the fertilisation of orchids. This 

 part of the year 1861 is not dealt with in the present chap- 

 ter, because (as explained in the preface) the record of his 

 life, seems to become clearer when the whole of his botani- 

 cal work is placed together and treated separately. The 

 present chapter will, therefore, include only the progress of 

 his work in the direction of a general amplification of the 

 Origin of Species e.g., the publication of Animals and 

 Plants and the Descent of Man. It will also give some 

 idea of the growth of belief in evolutionary doctrines. 



With regard to the third edition, he wrote to Mr. Mur- 

 ray in December, 1860 : 



" I shall be glad to hear when you have decided how 

 many copies you will print off the more the better for me 

 in all ways, as far as compatible with safety ; for I hope 

 never again to make so many corrections, or rather addi- 

 tions, which I have made in hopes of making my many 



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