364 CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN. 



time : " I have nothing to wish for, excepting 

 stronger health to go on with the subjects to which 

 I have joyfully determined to devote my life." 



For three years and eight months he worked un- 

 tiringly. He wrote Henslow : " I fear the Geology 

 will take me a great deal of time ; I was looking 

 over one set of notes, and the quantity I found I had 

 to read for that one place was frightful. If I live 

 till I am eighty years old I shall not cease to mar- 

 vel at finding myself an author. In the summer 

 before I started, if any one had told me that I 

 should have been an angel by this time, I should 

 have thought it an equal impossibility. This mar- 

 vellous transformation is all owing to you." 



Darwin and Lyell now became very intimate 

 friends. "I am coming into your way, of only 

 working about two hours at a spell," he writes to 

 Lyell ; " I then go out and do my business in the 

 streets, return and set to work again, and thus 

 make two separate days out of one." Of Lyell he 

 said : " One of his chief characteristics was his 

 sympathy with the work of others. . . . The sci- 

 ence of geology is enormously indebted to Lyell 

 more so, as' I believe, than to any other man who 

 ever lived." 



The " Journal " was published in 1839. January 

 twenty-nine of this year, Mr. Darwin, now thirty 

 years of age, was married to his cousin, Emma 

 Wedgwood, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood of Maer, 

 and granddaughter of the founder of the potteries 

 of Etruria. The extreme happiness of his married 



