Volume 2

The life and letters of Charles Darwin : including an autobiographical chapter / edited by his son, Francis Darwin.

  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Date:
1887
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Credit: The life and letters of Charles Darwin : including an autobiographical chapter / edited by his son, Francis Darwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOLUME II. PAGE CHAPTER I.—The Foundations of the ‘Crigin of Species’—1837-1844 ...... 1 CHAPTER II. —The Growth of the ‘ Origin of Species’ —1843-1856 ........ 19 CHAPTER III. —The Unfinished Book—May 1856-JuNE 1858 ......... 67 CHAPTER IV.- —The Writing of the ‘ Origin of Species ’ —June 18, 1858-Nov 1859 ..... 115 CHAPTER V. —Professcr Huxley on the Reception of the ‘Origin of Species’ ..... 179 CHAPTER VI.— The Publication of the ‘Origin of Species’—Oct. 3, 1859-DEC. 31, 1859 . . . 205 CHAPTER VII. —The ‘Origin of Species’ (continued) — i860 ......... 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