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Farnborough, in Kent. For twenty-six years, in the retirement of his 

 home, Mr. Darwin has devoted himself to the care of a large family, 

 and the quiet and close investigation of the works of Nature. His 

 first labors, after this date, were editing the " Zoology of the Voyage 

 of the Beagle," giving an account of the habits and ranges of the 

 various animals therein described. In aid of the publication of this 

 and other works bearing on the same subject, the Lords of the Treasury 

 granted 1,000. In 1842, Mr. Darwin published his work on " The 

 Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs;" in 1845, "Geological 

 Observations on Volcanic Islands ; " and in 1846, " Geological Observa- 

 tions on South America." 



Continuing, without rest, his researches, we find the results of his 

 unwearying industry in two volumes published in 1851 and 1854, "On 

 Pedunculated and Sessile Cirripedes," and, in two other volumes, on 

 the fossil species of the same class. 



Toward the close of 1859, Mr. Darwin published his "Origin of 

 Species by means of Natural Selection." Of this work four English 

 editions have appeared, and nine foreign editions, in French, German, 

 Dutch, Italian, and Russian. Its popularity is shown by the fact that 

 more than one hundred reviews, pamphlets, and separate books, have 

 been published upon it, while the earnestness with which the question 

 is still discussed shows that these will probably be doubled in a short 

 time. 



In 1834, Mr. Darwin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 

 In 1853, the Royal Society awarded to him the royal medal, and 

 in 1859 the Wollaston medal was given to him by the Geological 

 Society. In 1862, he published a book full of curious research, "On 

 the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are fertilized." Of sepa- 

 rate papers, published by this naturalist, we find the following among 

 the more important : " On the Connection of Certain Volcanic Phe- 

 nomena in South America ; " " On the Distribution of Erratic Bowlders 

 in South America ; " " On the Formation of Mould by the Earthworm ; " 

 and " On the Geology of the Falkland Islands " all published in the 

 Transactions of the Geological Society. In the Journal of the Linnean 

 Society, three papers have appeared from the pen of Mr. Darwin, " On 

 the Dimorphous and Trimorphous States of Primula," and one paper 

 " On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants." This last one 

 has since been published as a separate w r ork. In 1864, the Royal 

 Society awarded to Mr. Darwin the Copley medal, and he has been 

 elected a member of various foreign scientific bodies. 



The latest works of this indefatigable naturalist are, " The Varia- 

 tion of Animals under Domestication," in two volumes ; the " Descent 

 of Man," in two volumes ; and a book " On the Expression of the Emo- 

 tions in Man and Animals," just published, and some account of which 

 h given in the present number of The Popular Science Monthly. 



