

E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, René Anderson Benitz, and
the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(http://www.pgdp.net)



Transcriber's note:

      Minor printer's errors have been corrected without note.
      Obvious typographical errors have been corrected and are
      listed at the end of the text.





"Great Writers."

Edited by

Professor Eric S. Robertson, M.A.,

LIFE OF DARWIN.


LIFE OF CHARLES DARWIN

by

G. T. BETTANY







London
Walter Scott
24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row
1887




CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
                                                                    PAGE
Darwin's ancestry; his grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, a
successful physician, and author of "The Botanic Garden," "The
Temple of Nature,"