xviii OUTLINE OF CHARLES DARWIN*S LIFE 



1831. Dec. 27th: "Sailed from England on our circum- 



navigation." 



1832. Jan. 1 6th : "First landed on a tropical shore' 



(Santiago). 



1833. Dec. 6th : " Sailed for last time from Rio Plata." 



1834. June loth : "Sailed for last time from Tierra del 



Fuego." 



1835. Sept. 5th : " Sailed from west shores of South 



America." 

 Nov. 1 6th : Letters to Professor Henslow, read at a 



meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 

 Nov. 1 8th: Paper read before the Geological Society 



on Notes made during a Survey of the East and 



West Coasts of South America in years 1832-35. 



1836. May 3 1st : Anchored at the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Oct. 2nd : Anchored at Falmouth. 



Oct. 4th : Reached Shrewsbury after an absence of 



five years and two days. 

 Dec. 1 3th : Went to live at Cambridge. 



1837. Jan. 4th: Paper on Recent Elevation in ChilLread. 

 March I3th : Settled at 36, Great Marlborough Street. 



1 4th : Paper on Rhea read. 

 May : Read papers on Coral Formation, and on the 



Pampas, to the Geological Society. 

 July : Opened first note-book on Transmutation of 



Species. 



March I3th to Nov. : Occupied with his Journal. 

 Oct. and Nov. : Preparing the scheme for the Zoology 



of the Voyage of the Beagle. 

 Working at Geology of South America. 

 Nov. ist: Read the paper on Earthworms before the 



Geological Society. 



1838. Worked at the Geology of South America and 



Zoology of Voyage. 

 " Some little species theory." 

 March 7th : Read paper on the Connexion of certain 



Volcanic Phenomena and on the Formation of 



Mountain Chains, to the Geological Society. 

 May : Health began to break down. 

 June 23rd : Started for Glen Roy. The paper on 



Glen Roy was written in August and September. 



