ERASMUS DARWIN THE YOUNGER. 25 



has passed away in old age, yet his memory retains something 

 of a youthful fragrance ; his influence gave much happiness, 

 of a kind usually associated with youth, to many lives besides 

 the illustrious one whose records justify, though certainly they 

 do not inspire, the wish to place this fading chaplet on his 

 grave." 



The foregoing pages give, in a fragmentary manner, as 

 much perhaps as need be told of the family from which 

 Charles Danvin came, and may serve as an introduction to 

 the autobiographical chapter which follows. 



