xxiv OUTLINE OF CHARLES DARWIN'S LIFE 



1878. May: Contribution to X attire. 



Second edition of Different Forms of Flowers. 

 Wrote prefatory letter to Kerner's Flowers and their 

 Unbidden Guests. 



1879. The whole year at work on movements of plants, 



except for " about six weeks "in the spring and 

 early summer given to the Life of Erasmus 

 Darwin, which was published in the autumn. 

 Contributions to A r ature.^ 



1880. "All spring finishing MS. of Power of Movement in 



Plants and proof sheets." 

 " Began in autumn on Worms." 

 Prefatory notice written for Meldola's translation of 



Weismann's book. 

 Nov. 6th : 1 500 copies of Power of Movement sold at 



Murray's sale. 

 Contributions to Xatitre. 



1 88 1. During all the early part of the year at work on 



the " Worm book." Several contributions to 



Nature. 

 Oct. 10th : The book on Earthworms published : 2000 



copies sold at once. 

 Nov. : At work on the action of carbonate of ammonia 



on plants. 



1882. No entries in the Diary. 



Feb. : At work correcting the sixth thousand of the 



Earthworms. 

 Mar. 6th and Mar. 16th : Papers on the action of 



Carbonate of Ammonia on roots, etc., read at the 



Linnean Society. 

 April 6th : Note to Nature on Dispersal of Bivalves. 

 April 1 8th : Van Dyck's paper on Syrian Dogs, with a 



preliminary notice by Charles Darwin, read before 



the Zoological Society. 

 April 19th : Charles Darwin died at Down. 



