Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters

3. A replica by the artist is in the possession of W. E. Darwin, Esq., Southampton.

Chief Portraits and Memorials not taken from Life.

1. A cast from this work is now placed in the New Museums at Cambridge.

Chief Engravings from Photographs

*1854? By Messrs. Maull and Fox, engraved on wood for Harper's Magazine (Oct. 1884). Frontispiece, Life and Letters, vol. i.

1868 By the late Mrs. Cameron, reproduced in heliogravure by the Cambridge Engraving Company for the present work.

*1870? By O. J. Rejlander, engraved on Steel by C. H. Jeens for Nature (June 4, 1874).

*1874? By Major Darwin, engraved on wood for the Century Magazine (Jan. 1883). Frontispiece, Life and Letters, vol. ii.

1881 By Messrs. Elliot and Fry, engraved on wood by G. Kruells, for vol. iii. of the Life and Letters.

*The dates of these photographs must, from various causes, remain uncertain. Owing to a loss of books by fire, Messrs. Maull and Fox can give only an approximate date. Mr. Rejlander died some years ago, and his business was broken up. My brother, Major Darwin, has no record of the date at which his photograph was taken.

notes

1

I have not thought it necessary to indicate all the omissions in the abbreviated letters.

2

See Charles Darwin's biographical sketch of his grandfather, prefixed to Ernst Krause's Erasmus Darwin. (Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, 1878.) Also Miss Meteyard's Life of Josiah Wedgwood.

3

The above passage is, by permission of Messrs. Smith & Elder, taken from my article Charles Darwin, in the Dictionary of National Biography.

4

A Group of Englishmen, by Miss Meteyard, 1871.

5

The late Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood's house in Surrey.

6

Kept by Rev. G. Case, minister of the Unitarian Chapel in the High Street. Mrs. Darwin was a Unitarian and attended Mr. Case's chapel, and my father as a little boy went there with his elder sisters. But both he and his brother were christened and intended to belong to the Church of England; and after his early boyhood he seems usually to have gone to church and not to Mr. Case's. It appears (St. James's Gazette, December 15, 1883) that a mural tablet has been erected to his memory in the chapel, which is now known as the "Free Christian Church." – F. D.

7

Rev. W. A. Leighton remembers his bringing a flower to school and saying that his mother had taught him how by looking at the inside of the blossom the name of the plant could be discovered. Mr. Leighton goes on, "This greatly roused my attention and curiosity, and I inquired of him repeatedly how this could be done?" – but his lesson was naturally enough not transmissible. – F. D.

8

His father wisely treated this tendency not by making crimes of the fibs, but by making light of the discoveries. – F. D.

9

The house of his uncle, Josiah Wedgwood, the younger.

10

It is curious that another Shrewsbury boy should have been impressed by this military funeral; Mr. Gretton, in his Memory's Harkback, says that the scene is so strongly impressed on his mind that he could "walk straight to the spot in St. Chad's churchyard where the poor fellow was buried." The soldier was an Inniskilling Dragoon, and the officer in command had been recently wounded at Waterloo, where his corps did good service against the French Cuirassiers.

11

He lodged at Mrs. Mackay's, 11, Lothian Street. What little the records of Edinburgh University can reveal has been published in the Edinburgh Weekly Dispatch, May 22, 1888; and in the St. James's Gazette, February 16, 1888. From the latter journal it appears that he and his brother Erasmus made more use of the library than was usual among the students of their time.

12

I have heard him call to mind the pride he felt at the results of the successful treatment of a whole family with tartar emetic. – F. D.

13

Dr. Coldstream died September 17, 1863; see Crown 16mo. Book Tract. No. 19 of the Religious Tract Society (no date).

14

The society was founded in 1823, and expired about 1848 (Edinburgh Weekly Dispatch, May 22, 1888).

15

Josiah Wedgwood, the son of the founder of the Etruria Works.

16

Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni
Mente quatit solida.

17

Tenth in the list of January 1831.

18

I gather from some of my father's contemporaries that he has exaggerated the Bacchanalian nature of those parties. – F. D.

19

Rev. C. Whitley, Hon. Canon of Durham, formerly Reader in Natural Philosophy in Durham University.