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Epitome of Charles Darwin's Life 
Publication of the second edition of the Origin (3000 copies). 
Publication of a Naturalist’s Voyage. 
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.” 
Publication of the book On the various contrivances by which Orchids are 
Jertilised by Insects. 
Read paper before the Linnean Society “On the Movements and Habits 
of Climbing plants.” (Published as a book in 1875.) 
Publication of the fourth edition of the Origin (1250 copies). 
“T 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. 1, 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.” 
Publication of the fifth edition of the Origin. 
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’.” 
Publication of the sixth edition of the Origin. 
Publication of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 
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. , 
Publication of Insectivorous Plants. 
“T begin to think that every one who publishes a book is a fool.” 
Publication of the second edition of Variation in Animals and Planis. 
Publication of The Movementsand Habits of Climbing Plantsas a separate book. 
Wrote Autobiographical Sketch (Life and Letters, Vol. L., Chap. II.). 
Publication of The Effects of Cross and Self fertilisation. 
“T now [1881] believe, however,...that I ought to have insisted more strongly 
than I did on the many adaptations for self-fertilisation.” 
Publication of the second edition of Observations on Volcanic Islands. 
