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The life and letters of Charles Darwin - including an autobiographical chapter (1896) (14803159713)
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Identifier: lifelettersofcha1896darw (find matches) Title: The life and letters of Charles Darwin : including an autobiographical chapter Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 Darwin, Francis, Sir, 1848-1925 Subjects: Publisher: New York : D. Appleton Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: he rest of mylife. The circumstances which led to this second birth—somuch more important than my father then imagined—are con-nected with his Cambridge life, but may be more appropri-ately told in the present chapter. Foremost in the chain ofcircumstances which led to his appointment to the Beagle,was my fathers friendship with Professor Henslow. Hewrote in a pocket-book or diary, which contain a brief recordof dates, &c, throughout his life :— 1831. Christmas.—Passed my examination for B. A. de-gree and kept the two following terms. During these months lived much with Professor Hens-low, often dining with him and walking with him ; becameslightly acquainted with several of the learned men in Cam-bridge, which much quickened the zeal which dinner partiesand hunting had not destroyed. In the spring paid Mr. Dawes a visit with Ramsay andKirby, and talked over an excursion to Teneriffe. In the * The Beagle did not however make her final and successful start untilDecember 27. Text Appearing After Image: THE BEAGLE LAID ASHORE, RIVER SANTA CRUZ HENSLOW. l6l spring Henslow persuaded me to think of Geology, and intro-duced me to Sedgwick. During Midsummer geologised alittle in Shropshire. August.— Went on Geological tour* by Llangollen,Ruthin, Conway, Bangor, and Capel Curig, where I left Pro-fessor Sedgwick, and crossed the mountain to Barmouth. In a letter to Fox (May,
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