TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



VOLUME II. 



PAGE 



CHAPTER I. THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE 'ORIGIN OF 



SPECIES' 1837-1844 i 



CHAPTER II. THE GROWTH OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES' 



1843-1856 19 



CHAPTER III. THE UNFINISHED BOOK MAY i8s6-JuNE 



1858 67 



CHAPTER IV. THE WRITING OF THE ' ORIGIN OF SPECIES' 



JUNE 18, i858-Nov, 1859 115 



CHAPTER V. PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON THE RECEPTION OF 



THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES' . . . . .179 



CHAPTER VI. THE PUBLICATION OF THE 'ORIGIN OF 



SPECIES' OCT. 3, i859~DEC. 31, 1859 . . . 205 



CHAPTER VIL THE ' ORIGIN OF SPECIES ' (continued) 



1860 256 



CHAPTER VIII. THE SPREAD OF EVOLUTION 1861-1862 356 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 

 VOLUME II. 



Frontispiece: CHARLES DARWIN IN 1874 (?). From the 

 ' Century Magazine ' : the Photograph by Captain 

 L. Darwin, R.E. 



FACSIMILE OF A PAGE FROM A NOTE-BOOK OF 1837. Photo- 

 lithographed by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument 

 Company ...... to face page 5 



