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of his friend Sir Charles Lyell advice which his freedom 

 from pecuniary necessities fortunately enabled him to 

 take Darwin, on his return home, sought no official 

 scientific appointment. In 1839, he married his cousin, 

 Miss Emma Wedgewood, and finally established "himself 

 at Down House, near Orpington, in Kent, which con- 

 tinued to be his home to the end of his life. 



After his long voyage in the Beagle, Darwin never 

 left England again, not even to pay a brief visit to the 

 Continent. From his settlement at Down in 1839 

 onwards, he lived a quiet unostentatious life in his own 

 home, unremittingly occupied with his scientific pursuits. 

 On the i8th of April 1882, the great naturalist was 

 attacked by sudden illness, and at four o'clock in the 

 afternoon of the next day he breathed his last. He 

 was buried in Westminster Abbey, in the presence of 

 most of the foremost representatives of science in 

 Britain ; and his death deprived the scientific world 

 of the most prominent figure that this generation has 

 seen. 



With regard to the vast ma.ss of scientific work which 

 Darwin produced, nothing further can be attempted here 

 than merely to mention the titles of his larger works. 

 His 'Journal' of researches made in the voyage of the 

 Beagle was, as we have seen, published in 1839. 

 Other fruits of the long series of observations which he 

 made on the same voyage were published later under 

 the names of 'The Structure and Distribution of Coral- 

 Reefs' (1842), 'Geological Observations on Volcanic 

 Islands' (1844), and 'Geological Observations on South 

 America' (1846). Many of Darwin's geological observa- 



