OUTLINE OF CHARLES DARWIN'S LIFE 



Based on his Diary, dated August 1838 



References to the Journals in which Mr. Darwin's papers were 

 published will be found in his Life and Letters III., Appendix II. We are 

 greatly indebted to Mr. C. F. Cox, of New York, for calling our attention 

 to mistakes in the Appendix, and we take this opportunity of correcting 

 them. 



Appendix Ii., List ii. — Mr. Romanes spoke on Mr. Darwin's essay 

 on Instinct at a meeting of the Linnean Society, Dec. 6th, 1883, and 

 some account of it is given in Nature of the same date. But it was not 

 published by the Linnean Society. 



Appendix 11., List iii. — " Origin of saliferous deposits. Salt lakes of 

 Patagonia and La Plata" (1838). This is the heading of an extract from 

 Darwin's volume on South America reprinted in the Quarterly Journal 

 of the Geological Society, Vol. II., Pt. ii., Miscellanea, pp. 127-8, 1846. 



The paper on " Analogy of the Structure of some Volcanic Rocks, 

 etc.," was published in 1845, not in 185 1. 



A paper " On the Fertilisation of British Orchids by Insect Agency," 

 in the Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer viii., and Card. C/irou., 

 June 9th, i860, should be inserted in the bibliography. 



1809. Feb. 1 2th: Born at Shrewsbury. 



1 81 7. Death of his mother. 



181 8. Went to Shrewsbury School. 



1825. Left Shrewsbury School. 



1826. Oct.: Went to Edinburgh Liniversity. Read two 



papers before the Plinian Society of Edinburgh 

 "at the close of 1826 or early in 1827." 



1827. Entered at Christ's College, Cambridge. 



1828. Began residence at Cambridge. 



1831. Jan.: Passed his examination for B.A., and kept the 

 two following terms. 

 Aug. : Geological tour with Sedgwick. 

 Sept. nth : Went to Plymouth to see the Bea 

 Oct. 2nd : "Took leave of my home." 



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