xii Contents. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



PAGE 



DARWIN THE NATURALIST .... I23 



Ambition of Darwin — Future "Work Decided upon — Scien- 

 tific Friends — Papers Read before Various Societies — 

 Experiments with Earthworms — Marriage of Darwin — 

 Methods of Work — Various Publications, 



CHAPTER XIV. 



HOME LIFE . 131 



Appearance of Darwin — Continued Ill-Health — Daily 

 Habits — Change in Musical and Literary Tastes — Affection 

 for His Children. 



CHAPTER XV. 



THE WORK OF A LIFE 137 



Early Papers — Publications by Scientific Societies — "The 

 Formation of Mould" — "The Cirripedia" — The Wallace 

 Incident — Collecting Material for the "Origin of Species" 

 — Success of the Work — Time Spent in Authorship — Re- 

 ligion — Final Work and Death. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



HONOURS OF A LIFETIME 149 



Membership in Societies — The Institute of France — Prizes, 

 Medals, Degrees, Portraits, Gifts, etc. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



THE DARWIN FAMILY 156 



The First Known Darwin — The Head of the Family — 

 Natural-History Tastes— Poets, Doctors, and Military Men 

 — Erasmus Darwin — Carlyle's Description of Erasmus — 

 Evidences of Genius, 



