THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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PORTRAITS OF DARWIN 



In this number of The Popular 

 Science Monthly, commemorating the 

 hundredth anniversary of Darwin's 

 birth, are reproduced eight portraits. 

 Tlie first of these, given as a frontis- 

 piece, is from a Woodbury-type made 

 from life by Lock and Whitfield and 

 published in " Men of Mark " by Samp- 

 son, Low and Company about 1876. 

 IL gives perhaps a better impression 

 of Darwin as he actually looked in his 

 later years than any other portrait. 

 There follows a portrait from a photo- 

 graph by Maull and Fox taken about 

 1854. At the same time a similar 

 photograph was made from which a 

 somewhat idealized portrait was en- 

 graved in wood for Harper's Magazine 

 for October, 1884. The portrait next 

 given appeared in the Quarterly Jour- 

 nal of Science in 1866. There then 

 follows a reproduction of an engraving 

 on steel made for Nature in 1874 by 

 C. H. Jeens from a photograph taken 

 by 0. J. Rejlander about 1870. The 

 next Illustration is a photograph of 

 the bronze bust made by Mr. William 

 Couper and presented by the New York 

 Academy of Sciences to the American 

 Museum of Natural History on the 

 hundredth anniversary of Darwin's 

 birth. A second photograph of this 

 bust as it stands on the pedestal is 

 given at the end of the number. The 

 origin of the portrait next given is not 

 known to the editor. The following 

 portrait is from a photograph taken 



by ^Irs. Cameron at the Isle of Wight 

 in 1868. Darwin wrote under it " I 

 like this photograph very much better 

 than any other which has been taken 

 of me." The last portrait is from an 

 engraving on wood by G. Cruels for 

 •• The Life and Letters," from a pho- 

 tograph taken by Elliott and Fry in 

 1881. 



There are also given portraits of 

 several of those whose relations to 

 Darwin and his work were especially 

 intimate : Alfred R. Wallace, whose 

 paper on natural selection was pre- 

 sented simultaneously with Darwin's 

 and whose subsequent contributions to 

 the theory of evolution are notable, 

 whom Darwin calls " generous and 

 noble " ; Sir Joseph Hooker, the most 

 eminent of British botanis-ts, the life- 

 long friend and scientific adviser of 

 Darwin, of whom he says : " I have 

 known hardly any man more lovable " ; 

 Sir Charles Lyell, whose " Principles 

 of Geology " was Darwin's early in- 

 spiration and who was later his warm 

 friend and constant adviser, who with 

 Hooker presented to the Linnean So- 

 ciety the papers on natural selection; 

 the Rev. J. R. Malthus, whose " Prin- 

 ciples of Population " suggested the 

 idea of natural selection to both Dar- 

 win and Wallace, as Lyell's " Prin- 

 ciples " had previously impressed on 

 them the idea of evolution; Erasmus 

 Darwin, poet and philosopher, defender 

 of the doctrine of the transmutation of 

 species, whose grandson resembled him 

 in manv traits. 



