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  • Prologue

  • Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, American Council of Learned Societies
  • Book:
    Origins
    Published online:
    15 April 2010
    Print publication:
    24 April 2008, pp xxix-xxx

  • Summary

    The first letter in this volume was written when Darwin was twelve. The following provide some details of his life up to that point.

    1809

    Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February, second son and fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin, physician of Shrewsbury, and Susannah, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood I, master-potter of Staffordshire.

    1817

    Attended the Reverend George Case's school in the spring. On 15 July, Darwin's mother died, aged 52.

    1818

    Entered Shrewsbury School as a boarding student.

    1822

    Began to assist his older brother Erasmus with chemistry.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, American Council of Learned Societies
  • Book:
    Origins
    Published online:
    15 April 2010
    Print publication:
    24 April 2008, pp xxi-xxv

  • Summary

    The letters in this volume span the years from 1822, when Darwin was schoolboy in Shrewsbury, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as an engaging and inventive twelve-year-old in the midst of his family, and then as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student at Edinburgh University. Two years after going up to Edinburgh he abandoned any idea of following his father in becoming a physician and transferred to Cambridge University to prepare for the ministry. His interests as an undergraduate at Cambridge, as at Edinburgh, were clearly outside the established academic curriculum. He became an enthusiastic collector of insects, and a devoted follower of the professor of botany, John Stevens Henslow, who encouraged his interest in natural history, for which no degree was then offered. Soon after Darwin took his BA degree, Henslow recommended him for the post of unoffical naturalist and companion to Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, which was being prepared for a survey voyage to South America and the Pacific.

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