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1880 Publication of The Power of Movement in Plants. 



"Whether this masterly conception of the unity of what has hitherto 

 seemed a chaos of unrelated phenomena will be sustained, time alone will 

 show. But no one can doubt the importance of what Mr Darwin has done, 

 in showing that for the future the phenomena of plant movement can and 

 indeed must be studied from a single point of view." Sir William 

 Thiselton-Dyer, 1882. 



" It has always pleased me to exalt plants in the scale of organised 

 beings." 



1881 Publication of The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action 

 of Worms. 



1882 Charles Darwin died at Down, April 19, and was buried in Westminster 

 Abbey, April 26, in the north aisle of the Nave a few feet from the grave 

 of Sir Isaac Newton. 



" As for myself, I believe that I have acted rightly in steadily following 

 and devoting my life to Science. I feel no remorse from having committed 

 any great sin, but have often and often regretted that I have not done 

 more direct good to my fellow creatures." 



In 1885, Mr Huxley, referring to "the manifestation of public feeling 

 not only in these realms, but throughout the civilised world," called forth by 

 the death of Charles Darwin, said : — " The causes of this deep and wide 

 outburst of emotion are not far to seek. We had lost one of these rare 

 ministers and interpreters of Nature whose names mark epochs in the 

 advance of natural knowledge. For, whatever be the ultimate verdict of 

 posterity upon this or that opinion which Mr Darwin has propounded ; 

 whatever adumbrations or anticipations of his doctrines may be found in 

 the writings of his predecessors ; the broad fact remains that, since the 

 publication and by reason of the publication, of the Origin of Species the 

 fundamental conceptions and the aims of the students of living Nature have 

 been completely changed." 



