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thought, produced by the weighty ideas which dropped from the 

 clear mind of the philosopher. It is not to the merits of these, 

 however, that I can call your attention, but only to a few facts rel 

 ative to the books of Darwin himself. 



I would not have you suppose, if, indeed, one could, after the 

 lucid remarks to which you have listened, that the faulty and, I 

 fear, almost indiscernible list of published works, which I have 

 attempted to exhibit before you, reveals more than a moiety of 

 Darwin's writings.* A large number of comprehensive papers, 

 pregnant notes, and incisive queries are contained in those store 

 houses of precise knowledge, the journals of science, and the pub 

 lications of learned societies. During more than half a century, 

 from the beginning of Darwin's career to its very close, scarcely a 

 year passed in which a number of articles did not issue from his 

 pen. His first paper, on the Ova of Flustra, and another of simi 

 lar nature, were read before the Plinian Society, of Edinburgh, in 

 1825. His last note on the Distribution of Fresh-water Bivalves 

 appeared in Nature but a few days before his death. 



During the first twenty-five years the articles have mostly a geo 

 logical and zoological bearing, but later botanical and anthropologi 

 cal subjects come into prominence. They were contributed to many 

 publications, including a few American, German, and French 

 journals. The mass of papers, however, are to be found in the 

 Proceedings and Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 

 the Philosophical Transactions, the Philosophical Magazine, the An 

 nals and Magazine of Natural History, and Nature. 



It is in these papers that we first find the germs of many of those 

 more elaborate works, to which general attention has been attracted. 

 Thus the works on the Origin of Species, the Fertilization of 

 Plants by Insects, the Action of Earth Worms, and others were 

 foreshadowed at a time considerably antedating their final appear 

 ance. 



* The speaker referred to two large scrolls hanging on the lecture room walls, 

 upon which were inscribed a list of Darwin's most important publications. 



