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BULLETIN OF DENISON UNIVERSITY. 
Fifteen years later than Chamisso Charles Darwin entered upon a 
voyage in the Beagle^ which in many points of its route coincided with 
that of the former. Darwin’s great theory was developed by observa- 
tions made upon his voyage, though the announcement came only 
after 20 years of further investigation. Chamisso’s study of nature 
covered a much wider and more varied field ; his preparation for his 
work and his prosecution of it were hindered by far greater difficulties 
than those which beset the English naturalist’s path. Yet not only the 
botanist, but the zoologist, the student of geology, of man in his race- 
relations, and in his use of the lofty power of speech, all owe something 
to the manysided Chamisso.* For, in the words of Goethe, who was, like 
Chamisso, poet and naturalist as well, 
‘‘Wer Vieles bringt, wird Manchem etwas bringen.” 
