NOTES

Chapter 1

1 Nora Barlow (ed.), The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–1882, with Original Omissions Restored, London, Collins, 1958, p. 57.

2 Ibid., p. 60.

3 Ibid., p. 59.

4 F. H. Burkhardt and S. Smith et al. (eds.), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 14 vols., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985– , vol. I, p. 129.

5 Ibid., vol. I, p. 133.

6 Autobiography, 1958, p. 76.

7 Ibid., p. 78.

8 Ibid., p. 79.

9 Nora Barlow (ed.), ‘Darwin’s Ornithological Notes’, Bulletin of the British Museum, (Natural History) Historical series 2, pp. 201–78, p. 262.

10 Autobiography, 1958, p. 80.

11 Richard Darwin Keynes (ed.), Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988, p. 122.

12 Autobiography, 1958, p. 101.

13 Correspondence, 1985– , vol. III, p. 55.

14 Ibid., vol. I, p. 312.

Chapter 2

1 Autobiography, 1958, p. 100.

2 Paul H. Barrett et al. (eds.), Charles Darwin’s Notebooks, 1836 –1844: Geology, Transmutation of Species, Metaphysical enquiries, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987, Notebook B, pp. 63, 72.

3 Notebooks, 1987, Notebook C, p. 196.

4 Autobiography, 1958, p. 120.

5 Correspondence, 1985– , vol. II, p. 123.

6 Ibid., vol. II, p. 172.

7 Ibid., vol. III, p. 43.

8 Ibid., vol. III, p. 108.

9 Autobiography, 1958, p. 120.

10 Correspondence, 1985– , vol. VI, p. 335.

Chapter 3

1 Correspondence, 1985– , vol. VII, p. 118.

2 Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 3 vols, London, 1887, vol. I, p. 155.

3 Charles Darwin (1859), On the Origin of Species. A facsimile of the First Edition with an Introduction by Ernst Mayr, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1959, pp. 171, 188.

4 On the Origin of Species, 1859 edn, p. 31.

5 Correspondence, 1985– , vol. VII, p. 274.

6 On the Origin of Species, 1859 edn, p. 75.

7 Ibid., p. 84.

8 Ibid., p. 112.

9 Correspondence, 1985– , vol. VII, p. 265.

10 Correspondence, 1985– , vol. VIII, p. 75.

11 On the Origin of Species, 1859 edn, p. 488.

12 On the Origin of Species, 1860 edn, p. 484.

13 On the Origin of Species, 1859 edn, pp. 485–6.

14 On the Origin of Species, 1859 edn, p. 490.

15 Autobiography, 1958, p. 137.

16 Correspondence, 1985– , vol. VI, p. 178.

17 Correspondence, 1985– , vol. VII, pp. 324, 328.

Chapter 4

1 Correspondence, 1985– , vol. XI, p. 231.

2 Correspondence, 1985– , vol. VIII, p. 405.

3 ‘Agnosticism’, was an essay first published by Huxley in the Westminster Review in 1889. It was reprinted many times afterwards. It is most easily accessed in Huxley’s Collected Essays (1893–1894), vol. 5, p. 246.

4 Westminster Review, 1860, vol. 17, p. 556.

5 John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a Connected view of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Induction, 5th edn, 2 vols., London, 1862, vol. II, p. 18.

6 Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science, London, 1892, p. 369.

7 Charles Darwin (1871), The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 vols., facsimile of the first edition, introduced by John Tyler Bonner and Robert M. May, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1981, vol. II, pp. 368–9.

8 Ibid., vol. I, p. 57.

9 Ibid., vol. I, pp. 206–7.

Chapter 5

1 Steven Jay Gould, Natural History, October 1987, vol. 96, pp. 14–21.