ERASMUS DARWIN THE YOUNGER. 25. 



has passed away in old age, yet his memory retains something 

 of a youthful fragrance ; his influence gave much happiness, 

 of a kind usually associated with youth, to many lives besides 

 the illustrious one whose records justify, though certainly they 

 do not inspire, the wish to place this fading chaplet on his- 

 grave." 



The foregoing pages give, in a fragmentary manner, as 

 much perhaps as need be told of the family from which 

 Charles Darwin came, and may serve as an introduction to 

 the autobiographical chapter which follows. 



