charles_darwin

The Life of Charles Darwin
34. See The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (London: Smith,
Elder and Co., 1842), Preface, iv and The Origin of Species, 1.
35. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, I: 224–225.
36. Journal of Researches in Geology and Natural History, 403. Darwin
was bitten on 26 March 1835.
37. See Ralph Colp, To Be an Invalid: The Illnesses of Charles Darwin
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 109–144, for a summary of
the various theories about Darwin’s illnesses.
38. George M. Gould, Biographic Clinics: The Origin of the Ill-Health of
De Quincey, Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley and Browning (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston’s
Son and Co., 1903), 88–106.
39. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, I: 82.
40. Ibid., 83.
41. Correspondence of Charles Darwin, III (1844–1846): 2.
42. Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 19.
43. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, I: 93.
44. Hooker to Darwin, Letter dated 29 January 1844 and Darwin to
Hooker, Letter dated 23 February 1844, Correspondence of Charles Darwin,
III: 7, 10–12.
45. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, I: 89.
46. See James H. Secord, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication,
Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of
Creation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 9–40; and Robert
Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary
Writings, ed. James H. Secord (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994),
xxvi–xxxiii, for a summary of the furor.
47. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, I: 88. ‘‘His essay’’ is the one
Wallace sent to Darwin in June 1858.
48. Ibid., 84.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid., II: 84, 85.
51. The existing manuscript is published as Charles Darwin’s Natural
Selection: Being the Second Part of His Big Species Book Written from 1856 to
1858, ed. R. C. Stauffer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975).
See pages 5–14 for background information on the manuscript.
52. Letter dated 18 June 1858, Correspondence of Charles Darwin, VII
(1858–1859): 107.
53. Ibid.
54. Moore and Desmond, Darwin, 470.
55. Knight, ‘‘Introduction to Volume IX,’’ The Evolution Debate, 1813–
1870 (London: Routledge, 2003), IX: vii.
56. Thomas Bell (1792–1880), the president of the Linnean Society,
supposedly remarked that nothing significant had occurred in the field of
biology in 1858 when summarizing the papers presented that year.
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