CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



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Darwin's ancestry ; his grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, a 

 successful physician, and author of " "The Botanic Garden," 

 "The Temple of Nature," &c. ; his father, Robert Waring 

 Darwin, also a successful physician ; his maternal grand- 

 father, Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated potter ; his 

 mother's education and training ; Charles Robert Darwin, 

 born at Shrewsbury, Feb. 12, 1809 ; Mrs. Darwin dies in 

 July, 1817 ; her eldest son, Erasmus, friend of the 

 Carlyles ; Charles Darwin's education by Mr. Case, and at 

 Shrewsbury Grammar School ; his character as a boy ; is 

 sent to Edinburgh University in 1825 . . .II 



CHAPTER II. 



Darwin a member of the Plinian Society, of Edinburgh ; makes 

 natural history excursions ; his first scientific paper read 

 March, 27, 1827 ; friendship with Dr. Grant ; Jameson's 

 lectures on zoology ; Darwin enters Christ's College, Cam- 

 bridge, in 1828 ; his friendship with Prof. Henslow ; his 

 account of Henslow ; Darwin at this time specially an 

 entomologist ; his excursions with Henslow ; takes B.A. 

 degree in 1831, M.A. in 1837 ; voyage of Beagle proposed, 

 and Darwin appointed as naturalist ; \hzBeagle sails on Dec. 

 27, 1831 ; Darwin's letters to Henslow published 1835 ; 

 1832, Darwin at Teneriffe, Cape de Verde Islands, St. 

 Paul's Rocks, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro (April) ; excursions 

 into interior and amusing adventures ; his experiences and 

 horror of slavery ; at Monte Video, July ; Maldonado, 



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