NATTJEE STUDIES. 



CHARLES R. DARWIN. 



BY R. A. PROCTOR. 



CHARLES DARWIN, the Newton of Biology, died 011 

 Wednesday, April 19, 1882, aged 73 years. He was 

 born on February 12, 1809, at Shrewsbury. His 

 father was Dr. K. W. Darwin, F.R.S.; his grand- 

 father Dr. Erasmus Darwin, F.R.S., author of "The 

 Botanic Garden/' " Zoonomia," and other works. 

 Shrewsbury Grammar School may fairly be proud of 

 the circumstance that the most eminent naturalist of 

 the nineteenth century was trained under her care. 

 In 1825 Darwin left Shrewsbury for Edinburgh, where 

 lie attended the University lectures for a period of 

 two years, at the end of which he entered at Christ 

 College, Cambridge. He took his degree in 1831. 

 In this year he learned that Captain Fitzroy had 

 offered to share his cabin with any competent 

 naturalist who would accompany him in H.M.S. 

 Beagle, which was about to sail on a voyage of cir- 

 cumnavigation. Darwin tendered his services, and, 

 doubtless, the world ewes to this circumstance, more 



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