OUTLINE OF CHARLES DARWIN'S LIFE xix 



1838. Oct. 5th : Began Coral paper. 



Nov. nth: Engaged to be married to his cousin, 



Emma Wedgwood. 

 Dec. 3 ist: "Entered 12 Upper Gower Street." 



1839. Jan. 29th: Married at Maer. 



Feb. and March : Some work on Corals and on Species 



Theory. 



March (part) and April : Working at Coral paper. 

 Papers on a Rock seen on an Iceberg, and on the 



Parallel Roads of Glen Roy. 

 Published Journal and Remarks, being vol. iii. of the 



Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of H.MS. 



"Adventure' and "Beagle" etc. 

 For the rest of the year, Corals and Zoology of the 



Voyage. 

 Publication of the Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. 



"Beagle" Part II. (Mammalia). 



1840. W 7 orked at Corals and the Zoology of the Voyage. 

 Contributed Geological introduction to Part I. of the 



Zoology of the Voyage (Fossil Mammalia by Owen). 



1841. Publication of Part III. of the Zoology of the Voyage 



(Birds). 

 Read paper on Boulders and Glacial Deposits of South 



America, to Geological Society. 

 Published paper on a remarkable bar of Sandstone off 



Pernambuco, on the coast of Brazil. 

 Publication of Part IV. of Zoology of the Voyage (Fish) 



1842. May 6th : Last proof of the Coral book corrected. 

 June : Examined Glacier action in Wales. 



" Wrote pencil sketch of my Species Theory." 

 July : Wrote paper on Glaciers of Caernarvonshire. 

 Oct. : Began his book on Volcanic Islands. 



1843. Working at Volcanic Islands and "some Species work." 



1844. Feb. 1 3th: Finished Volcanic Islands. 



July to Sept : Wrote an enlarged version of Species 



Theory. 



Papers on Sagitta, and on Planaria. 

 July 27th : Began his book on the Geology of South 



America. 



1845. Paper on the Analogy of the Structure of Volcanic 



Rocks with that of Glaciers. Proc. R. Soc. Edin. 



