INDEX 



169 



Lyell on Murchison, 57 ; Mur- 

 chison on Lyell, 58 ; Lyell's 

 avoidance of controversy, 63 ; 

 differences of opinion with 

 Scrope, 62, 63 ; attention to 

 literary style, 65 ; professor- 

 ship at King's College, London, 

 65, 69 ; lectures, 66 ; contro- 

 versies at Geological Society, 

 71 ; aid of Darwin in discus- 

 sions, 71 ; his friendship with 

 Darwin, 73, 104, 105; his ex- 

 treme caution, 75-77 ; candour 

 in finally accepting Natural 

 Selection, 77 ; opposition to 

 his views, 83, 84 ; his belief in 

 Evolution at an early date, 

 81, 84-86 ; his anticipation of 

 * Mimicry,' 85, 86 ; his action 

 in Darwin-Wallace episode, 

 113, 129; induces Darwin to 

 commence writing his work, 

 128; his attitude towards 

 theory of Natural Selection, 

 139, 140, 145 ; great influence 

 of Lyell's works on Darwin and 

 Evolution, 150 ; misrepresen- 

 tation of nis views, 152-154; 

 his declining years, 157 ; last 

 hours, 80; Hooker's tribute to 

 his memory, 79, 80 

 LYELL, CHARLES (the elder), bot- 

 anist and student of Dante, 41 ; 

 intercourse with the Hookers, 

 126 



MALTHUS, On Population, influ- 

 ence of work on Darwin, 107 ; 

 on Wallace, 112 



Man, descent of, Darwin's work 

 on, 142, 144 ; Wallace's views 

 on, 144 



MANTELL, LyelFs researches with, 

 48 ; correspondence with, 55, 

 89 



MATTHEW, P., anticipation of 

 theory of Natural Selection, 

 92 



MILTON, description of creation, 

 13; Darwin's early love of 

 his poetry, 134 ; at Christ's 

 College, Cambridge, 13 



Mimicry, doctrine of, Lyell's 

 early recognition of import- 

 ance, 85, 86 



Modern Science, Darwin and, 148 



MUBCHISON, accompanies Lyell to 

 Auvergne, 56 ; opinion of Lyell, 

 57 ; Lyell's opinion of, 57, 58 ; 

 3rd Vol. of Principles dedicated 

 to, 66 ; correspondence with, 59 



MURRAY, JOHN, and Quarterly 

 Review, 60; publishes Lyell's 

 works, 60 ; publishes Darwin's 

 works, 130; his reminiscences 

 of Darwin, 132 



Music, Darwin's loss of power to 

 appreciate, and its cause, 134, 

 135 



Natural Selection, theory of, de- 

 fined by Huxley, 106; fore- 

 stalled by Wells, Matthew &c., 

 18, 19; first conception of by 

 Darwin, 107 ; by Wallace, 112 



' Neptunism ' or ' Wernerism ' 

 and Catastrophism, 18 



NEWTON, Professor A., on vague 

 hopes of solution of ' species 

 question ' before Darwin, 94, 

 109 



Origin of Species, first idea of, 

 121 ; plan proposed to follow 



