... College; William Hoggins, esq., ?? Secretary to the Royal Astronomical Society ; Sterndale Bennett, esq. N.B. The name of Charles Darwin, esq., ?? would have been included in the foregoing Ust, but he writes that his health is such that he could not withstand ...

... recount to M. Thiers, which is now being numerously signed, and already bears the names of Lord Amberley, Lord Hobart, Mr. Charles Darwin, Sir John Labbock. Mr. W. D. Christie, lato Her Majesty's Minister to Brazil, who bear emphatic witness to the value of ...

... promise of a Supplement, which shill bring down to the present date his lists of the labours of such men as Lord Brougham, Charles Darwin, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, and a host of other personages'whose only fault is that their names occur among the ...

... 99th Regiment were yesterday presented to the Duke and Duohess of Edinburgh. ■ THE NEW REOTOR OF St. ANDREW'S. The Rev. Charles Darwin is named as the next Rector of St. Andrew's. THE CONSERVATIVES. Mr. Powell has been requested to stand as Conservative ...

... HOLLY BEKRIES Mr. Charles Darwin writes to the Gardeners' Chronicle : — Several of your correspondents have noticed the scarcity of holly berrie* in different parts of the country, and the same thing may be observed to a remarkable extent in my neigh- ...

... English Spelling Reform Association resumed its sit- tings on the 17th inst. Among the new mem- bers elected were Mr. Charles Darwin, Sir John Lubbuck, Professor Monier Williams, and Mr. Alfred Tennyson. At the adjourned meeting on Tuesday last it was ...

... JOTTINGS. To Mr. Charles Darwin has been awarded, by the Academy of Sciences at Turin, a prize of about £480 in value, for his discoveries in the physiology of plants. The French Geographical Society are about to cousider the question of adopting some ...

... DEATH OF PROFESSOR DARWIN The death of Professor Charles Darwin, at bis residence, Down House, Down, near Brom- ley, Ksnt, took place on Wednesday last at the age of 73. He had been suffering for some time past from weakness of tbe heart, but has con ...

... THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN We have been favoured vvith information as to the medical history of the great naturalist, which vvill be read with great interest. Under the domination of a many-sided, sensitive, and highly-strung nervous system, the health of ...

... ready, and cf remarkable self-posses- sion. He bad been a diligent reader of the poet Schiller and of tbe naturalist Charles Darwin, and his desultory course of study bad ended in making him, like many others of his class in Germany, a believer in nothing ...

... continent of South America. No wonder that its history, especially in Terra del Fuego, attracted the attention of the late Charles Darwin, and led him to be a friend and supporter of the Society, affording as it does some of the most re- markable evidences ...

... floriculturists forthwith deter- mined to take the dahlia in hand. Although he uses it in its place in his general argument, Charles Darwin was by no means the discoverer of the fact that loug continued cultivation in rich soil is the commonest exciting cause ...