TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. — The Darwin Family ~ . . i 



II. — Autobiography ......... 25 



III. — Reminiscences 87 



LETTERS. 



IV. — Cambridge Life — 1S28-1831 139 



V. — The Appointment to the 'Beagle' — 1831 . . . 160 



VI.— The Voyage— 1831-1836 191 



VII. — London and Cambridge — 1836-1842 243 



VIII.— Religion 274 



IX. — Life at Down— 1842-1854 287 



X. — The Growth of the 'Origin of Species' . . .363 

 XL — The Growth of the 'Origin of Species' — Letters — 



1843-1856 3S0 



XII. — The Unfinished Book — May 1856-JuNE 1858 . . . 426 

 XIII. — The Writing of the 'Origin of Species' — June 18, 



1858-N0V. 1859 472 



XIV. — Professor Huxley on the Reception of the 'Origin 



of Species' 533 



