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

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2017
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The late John Maurice Herbert, County Court Judge of Cardiff and the Monmouth Circuit.

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Afterwards Sir H. Thompson, first baronet.

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The Cambridge Ray Club, which in 1887 attained its fiftieth anniversary, is the direct descendant of these meetings, having been founded to fill the blank caused by the discontinuance, in 1836, of Henslow's Friday evenings. See Professor Babington's pamphlet, The Cambridge Ray Club, 1887.

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Mr. Jenyns (now Blomefield) described the fish for the Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle; and is author of a long series of papers, chiefly Zoological. In 1887 he printed, for private circulation, an autobiographical sketch, Chapters in my Life, and subsequently some (undated) addenda. The well-known Soame Jenyns was cousin to Mr. Jenyns' father.

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In connection with this tour my father used to tell a story about Sedgwick: they had started from their inn one morning, and had walked a mile or two, when Sedgwick suddenly stopped, and vowed that he would return, being certain "that damned scoundrel" (the waiter) had not given the chambermaid the sixpence intrusted to him for the purpose. He was ultimately persuaded to give up the project, seeing that there was no reason for suspecting the waiter of perfidy. – F. D.

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Philosophical Magazine, 1842.

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Josiah Wedgwood.

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The Count d'Albanie's claim to Royal descent has been shown to be baaed on a myth. See the Quarterly Review, 1847, vol. lxxxi. p. 83; also Hayward's Biographical and Critical Essays, 1873, vol. ii. p. 201.

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Read at the meeting held November 16, 1835, and printed in a pamphlet of 31 pp. for distribution among the members of the Society.

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In Fitzwilliam Street.

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Geolog. Soc. Proc. ii. 1838, pp. 416-449.

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1839, pp. 39-82.

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Geolog. Soc. Proc. iii. 1842.

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Geolog. Trans. v. 1840.

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Geolog. Soc. Proc. ii. 1838.

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Philosophical Magazine, 1842.

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The slight repetition here observable is accounted for by the notes on Lyell, &c., having been added in April, 1881, a few years after the rest of the Recollections were written. – F. D.

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A passage referring to X. is here omitted. – F. D.

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Geological Observations, 2nd Edit. 1876. Coral Reefs, 2nd Edit. 1874

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Published by the Ray Society.

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Miss Bird is mistaken, as I learn from Professor Mitsukuri. – F. D.

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Geolog. Survey Mem., 1846.

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Between November 1881 and February 1884, 8500 copies were sold. – F. D.

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The falseness of the published statements on which Mr. Huth relied were pointed out in a slip inserted in all the unsold copies of his book, The Marriage of near Kin. – F. D.

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As an exception, may be mentioned, a few words of concurrence with Dr. Abbott's Truths for the Times, which my father allowed to be published in the Index.
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