Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2

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Darwin Charles. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2

TRANSCRIPT OF A FACSIMILE OF A PAGE FROM A NOTE-BOOK OF 1837

VOLUME II

CHAPTER 2.I. — THE PUBLICATION OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.'

CHAPTER 2.II. — THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES' (continued)

CHAPTER 2.III. — SPREAD OF EVOLUTION

CHAPTER 2.IV. — THE SPREAD OF EVOLUTION

CHAPTER 2.V. — THE PUBLICATION OF THE 'VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION.'

CHAPTER 2.VI. — WORK ON 'MAN.'

CHAPTER 2.VII. — PUBLICATION OF THE 'DESCENT OF MAN.'

CHAPTER 2.VIII. — MISCELLANEA

CHAPTER 2.IX. — MISCELLANEA (continued)

CHAPTER 2.X. — FERTILISATION OF FLOWERS

CHAPTER 2.XI. — THE 'EFFECTS OF CROSS- AND SELF-FERTILISATION

CHAPTER 2.XII. — 'DIFFERENT FORMS OF FLOWERS ON PLANTS OF THE SAME SPECIES.'

CHAPTER 2.XIII. — CLIMBING AND INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS

CHAPTER 2.XIV. — THE 'POWER OF MOVEMENT IN PLANTS.'

CHAPTER 2.XV. — MISCELLANEOUS BOTANICAL LETTERS

CHAPTER 2.XVI. — CONCLUSION

APPENDIX I

APPENDIX II

Notes upon the Rhea Americana. Zoology Society Proc., Part v. 1837

Notes on the Effects produced by the Ancient Glaciers of

Notes on the Fertilization of Orchids. Annals and Magazine of Natural

APPENDIX III

APPENDIX IV

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[Under the date of October 1st, 1859, in my father's Diary occurs the entry: "Finished proofs (thirteen months and ten days) of Abstract on 'Origin of Species'; 1250 copies printed. The first edition was published on November 24th, and all copies sold first day."

On October 2d he started for a water-cure establishment at Ilkley, near Leeds, where he remained with his family until December, and on the 9th of that month he was again at Down. The only other entry in the Diary for this year is as follows: "During end of November and beginning of December, employed in correcting for second edition of 3000 copies; multitude of letters."

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After much consideration, and on the strong advice of Lyell and others, I have resolved to leave the present book as it is (excepting correcting errors, or here and there inserting short sentences) and to use all my strength, WHICH IS BUT LITTLE, to bring out the first part (forming a separate volume with index, etc.) of the three volumes which will make my bigger work; so that I am very unwilling to take up time in making corrections for an American edition. I enclose a list of a few corrections in the second reprint, which you will have received by this time complete, and I could send four or five corrections or additions of equally small importance, or rather of equal brevity. I also intend to write a SHORT preface with a brief history of the subject. These I will set about, as they must some day be done, and I will send them to you in a short time — the few corrections first, and the preface afterwards, unless I hear that you have given up all idea of a separate edition. You will then be able to judge whether it is worth having the new edition with YOUR REVIEW PREFIXED. Whatever be the nature of your review, I assure you I should feel it a GREAT honour to have my book thus preceded...

ASA GRAY TO CHARLES DARWIN. Cambridge, January 23rd, 1860.

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