Herschel. Reaches home. Life at London and Cambridge. Residence at Cambridge. Works on his 'Journal of Researches.' Appointed secretary of Geological Society. Visits Glen Roy. Admiration for Lyell's 'Elements.' Increasing ill-health. At work on 'Coral Reefs.' His religious views. Life at Down, 1842-1854. Reasons for leaving London. Early impressions of Down. Theory of coral islands. Time spent on geological books. Purchases farm in Lincolnshire. Dines with Lord Mahon. Daughter Annie dies. His children. Growth of views on 'Origin of Species.' Plan for publishing 'Sketch of 1844,' in case of his sudden death. Pigeon fancying enterprise. Collecting plants. General acceptance of his work. Publishes 'Origin of Species.' Elected correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia). His views on the civil war in the United States. At Bournemouth. His view of Lyell's 'Antiquity of Man.' Receives the Copley medal. Elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh. His conscientiousness in argument. His intercourse with horticulturists and stock-raisers. Elected to the Royal Society of Holland. Made a knight of the Prussian order Pour le Merite. Sits for a bust. Declines a nomination for the degree of D.C.L. because of ill-health. His connection with the South American Missionary Society. His answers to Galton's questions on nature and nurture. Sits for portrait to W. Ouless. Elected to Physiological Society. Replies to Miss Cobbe on vivisection in the "Times". Publishes the 'Life of Erasmus Darwin.' Sits for memorial portraits. Receives various honours. Makes a present to the Naples Zoological Station. His answers to Galton's questions on the faculty of visualising. Offers aid to Fritz Muller. Replies to Sir W. Thomson on abyssal fauna. His botanical work. Builds a greenhouse. Publishes work on the fertilisation of orchids. Studies the bloom on leaves and fruit. Studies the causes of variability. Studies the production of galls. Studies aggregation. Encourages Torbitt's work on the potato disease. Aids the preparation of the Kew 'Index of Plant-names.' Death. Burial in Westminster Abbey. List of works.

DARWIN & Wallace's joint paper on variation.

DARWIN, Edward, author of 'Gamekeeper's Manual.'

DARWIN, Mrs. Emma (Wedgwood), letter to.

DARWIN, Erasmus (born 1731), poet and philosopher. Character of. Life published in English.

DARWIN, Erasmus (born 1759).

DARWIN, Erasmus Alvey (1804-1881), educated as a physician. Character of. Carlyle's sketch of his character. Miss Wedgwood's letter on his character. Letter from. His death.

DARWIN, Robert, of Elston Hall. Charles Darwin's estimate of.

DARWIN, Robert Waring, (born 1724), publishes 'Principia Botanica.'

DARWIN, Robert Waring, (born 1767), studies medicine at Leyden. Settles in Shrewsbury. Marries Susannah Wedgwood. His son Charles's description of him. His six children. Letters to.

DARWIN, Susan, letters to.

DARWIN, William, of Marton, first known ancestor of Charles.

DARWIN, William, son of Richard, appointed yeoman of the Royal Armoury.

DARWIN, William (1655).

DARWYN, Richard, of Marton, mentioned.

DAVIDSON, Thomas, letter to, asking him to investigate brachiopods. Letter to. On British brachiopoda.

DE CANDOLLE, A., see Candolle, A. De.

DESCENT, doctrine of.

DESCENT OF ANIMALS.

'DESCENT OF MAN,' published. Work on. Reviews of. Reception in Germany. Wallace's views on. Second edition. Connected with socialism.

DESIGN IN NATURE, doctrine of.

DIAGRAMS OF DESCENT OF MAMMALS.

'DIFFERENT FORMS OF FLOWERS,' published. Reviewed in 'Nature.'

DIGESTION OF PLANTS, Darwin's work on.

DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS.

DIVERGENCE OF CHARACTER, principle of.

DOGS, multiple origin of.

DOHRN, Anton, letter to.

DONDERS, F.C., letters to.

DOWN, description of.

DRIFT near Southampton, stones standing on end in.

DU BOIS-REYMOND agrees with Darwin.

DYCK, W.T. van, letter to.

DYER, W. Thiselton, on Darwin's botanical work. Letters to

Charles Darwin

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