xvi Epitome of Charles Darwin's Life 



1860 Publication of the second edition of the Origin (3000 copies). 

 Publication of a Naturalist's Voyage. 



1861 Publication of the third edition of the Origin (2000 copies). 



"I am going to write a little book.. .on Orchids, and to-day I hate them worse 

 than everything." 



1862 Publication of the book On the various contrivances by which Orchids are 



fertilised by Insects. 



1865 Read paper before the Linnean Society "On the Movements and Habits 



of Climbing plants." (Published as a book in 1875.) 



1866 Publication of the fourth edition of the Origin (1250 copies). 



1868 " I have sent the MS. of my big book, and horridly, disgustingly big it will be, 



to the printers." 



Publication of the Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. 



" About my book, I will give you [Sir Joseph Hooker] a bit of advice. Skip 

 the whole of Vol. I, except the last chapter, (and that need only be skimmed), 

 and skip largely in the 2nd volume ; and then you will say it is a very good 

 book." 



" Towards the end of the work I give my well-abused hypothesis of Pangenesis. 

 An unverified hypothesis is of little or no value; but if anyone should 

 hereafter be led to make observations by which some such hypothesis could 

 be established, I shall have done good service, as an astonishing number of 

 isolated facts can be thus connected together and rendered intelligible." 



1869 Publication of the fifth edition of the Origin. 



1871 Publication of The Descent of Man. 



"Although in the Origin of Species the derivation of any particular species is 

 never discussed, yet I thought it best, in order that no honourable man 

 should accuse me of concealing my views, to add that by the work ' light 

 would be thrown on the origin of man and his history'." 



1872 Publication of the sixth edition of the Origin. 



Publication of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 



1874 Publication of the second edition of The Descent of Man. 



" The new edition of the Descent has turned out an awful job. It took me ten 

 days merely to glance over letters and reviews with criticisms and new facts. 

 It is a devil of a job." 



Publication of the second edition of The Structure and Distribution of Coral 

 Reefs. 



1875 Publication of Insectivoro us Plants. 



" 1 begin to think that every one who publishes a book is a fool." 

 Publication of the second edition of Variation in Animals and Plants. 

 Publication of The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants as a separate book. 



1876 Wrote Autobiographical Sketch {Life and Letters, Vol. I., Chap. II.). 

 Publication of The Effects of Cross and Self fertilisation. 



"I now [1881] believe, however,.. .that I ought to have insisted more strongly 



than 1 did on the many adaptations for self-fertilisation." 

 Publication of the second edition of Observations on Volcanic Islands. 



