CHAPTER XIII. 



DARWIN THE NATURALIST. 



Ambition of Darwin — Future Work Decided upon — Scientific 

 Friends — Papers Read before Various Societies — Experiments 

 with Earthworms — Marriage of Darwin — Methods of Work — 

 Various Publications. 



ARWIN left England a 

 young man without ex- 

 perience, but with a lofty- 

 ambition to attain by 

 hard, earnest work a po- 

 sition among the scien- 

 tists of the day. He 

 returned after an absence 

 of five years, possessed of 

 information on so great a 

 variety of subjects, that 

 he may be said to have 

 been at the early age of twenty-eight one of the 

 best-equipped naturalists of the age. Having fol- 

 lowed him around the world and watched the ear- 

 nestness with which he carried on his investigations 

 and his indefatigable industry, we may accord him at 

 once a position, not simply as a successful collector, ' 



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