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1877 Publication of The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the same species. 

 "I do not suppose that I shall publish any more books....! cannot endure 



being idle, but heaven knows whether I am capable of any more good work." 

 Publication of the second edition of the Orchid book. 



1878 Publication of the second edition of The Effects of Cross and Self fertilisation. 



1879 Publication of an English translation of Ernst Krause's Erasmus Darwin, 



with a notice by Charles Darwin. " I am extremely glad that you approve 

 of the little ' Life ' of our Grandfather, for I have been repenting that 

 I ever undertook it, as the work was quite beyond my tether." [To 

 Mr Francis Galton, Nov. 14, 1879.] 



1880 Publication of The Power of Movement in Plants. 



" It has always pleased me to exalt plants in the scale of organised beings." 

 Publication of the second edition of The Different Forms of Flowers. 



1881 Wrote a continuation of the Autobiography. 



Publication of The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action 



of Worms. 

 "It is the completion of a short paper read before the Geological Society more 



than forty years ago, and has revived old geological thoughts.... As far as I 



can judge it will be a curious little book." 



1882 Charles Darwin died at Down, April 19, and was buried in Westminster 



Abbey, April 26, in the north aisle of the Nave a few feet from the grave of 

 Sir Isaac Newton. 



"As for myself, I believe that I have acted rightly in steadily following 

 and devoting my life to Science. I feel no remorse from having committed 

 any great sin, but have often and often regretted that I have not done more 

 direct good to my fellow creatures." 



The quotations in the above Epitome are taken from the Autobiography and 

 published Letters: 



The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter. 

 Edited by his son, Francis Darwin, 3 Vols., London, 1887. 



Charles Darwin : His life told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a selected 

 series of his published Letters. Edited by his sou, Francis Darwin, London, 1902. 



More Letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto 

 unpublished Letters. Edited by Francis Darwin and A. C. Seward, 2 Vols., London, 

 1903. 



