IN MEMORIAM: CHARLES DARWIN 



the ordinary reader, is to be found in the " Jour- 

 nal of Researches " published by Mr. Darwin 

 some three years after his return to England. 

 This book immediately acquired a great popu- 

 larity, which it has retained to this day, having 

 gone through at least thirteen editions ; and it 

 is certainly one of the most fascinating books 

 of travel that was ever written. "The author," 

 said the " Quarterly Review," in December, 

 1839, " is a first-rate landscape painter with the 

 pen, and the dreariest solitudes are made to teem 

 with interest." An abridgment of this charm- 

 ing journal, lately published with illustrations, 

 under the title " What Mr. Darwin saw in his 

 Voyage round the World," has become a favour- 

 ite book for boys and girls. 



The scientific results of Mr. Darwin's voyage 

 in the Beagle were so voluminous that it re- 

 quired several years and the assistance of many 

 able hands to record them all. Owen, Hooker, 

 Waterhouse, Berkeley, Bell, and other eminent 

 naturalists took part in the publication of these 

 results, which formed a very important contri- 

 bution to the zoology and botany, and to the 

 palaeontology, of the countries visited in the 

 course of the voyage. To this great series of 

 volumes, which appeared between 1840 and 

 1846, Mr. Darwin contributed three from his 

 own hand, the work on "Volcanic Islands," 

 the " Geological Observations on South Amer- 

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