charles_darwin

Chronology
1844 July: Darwin writes an longer version of his species [35]
theory (230 pages).
October: Robert Chambers’s book Vestiges of the
Natural History of Creation is published
anonymously.
November: Geological Observations on the Volcanic
Islands, Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle,
together with Some Brief Notices on the Geology of
Australia and the Cape of Good Hope is published.
1845 9 July: George Howard Darwin is born. [36]
August: Second edition of A Naturalist’s Voyage
Round the World is published.
1846 October: Geological Observations on South America [37]
is published.
1847 8 July: Elizabeth Darwin is born. [38]
1848 16 August: Francis Darwin, Darwin’s first
[39]
biographer, is born.
1850 15 January: Leonard Darwin is born. [40]
1851 23 April: Anne Elizabeth Darwin dies (at ten years old). [42]
13 May: Horace Darwin is born.
June: A Monograph on the Fossil Lepadidae, or,
Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain is
published.
December: A Monograph on the Sub-Class
Cirripedia, with Figures of All the Species: The
Lepadidae; or Pedunculated Cirripedes is
published.
1853 30 November: Awarded the Royal Medal of the [44]
Royal Society.
Tenth edition of Vestiges of the Natural History of
Creation is published.
1854 August: A Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripedia,
with Figures of All the Species: the Balanidae, (or
Sessile Cirripedes); The Verrucidae, etc., etc., etc. is
published.
[45]
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