A PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES DARWIN
PART TWO
MARRIAGE AND DOWN HOUSE
Emma
Wedgewood.  1840 watercolour by George Richmond. She married Darwin in 1839. |
 1840 watercolour by George Richmond. Darwin was 31 |
United
for a wedding pic via my rough photomontage.
1842
Daguerrotype studio
portrait, with
William,
his first born, seemingly wearing a dress.
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After several fruitless searches in Surrey and elsewhere, we found this house and purchased it... Few persons can have lived a more retired life than we have done. |
Down House, bought
in
1842 - viewed from the garden.
The
gardens, Down
House.
The verandah.
Darwin would relax and read here each afternoon.
The
gardens, Down
House. The verandah.Darwin would relax and read here each afternoon.
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My
chief enjoyment and sole employment throughout life has
been scientific work; and the excitement from such work makes me for the time forget, or drives quite away, my daily discomfort. |
'The Study at Down.'
Lithograph, from 'Century
Magazine.' The small basket where Darwin's white fox-terrier, 'Polly'
slept can be seen under his desk.. 
As it is today, beautifully preserved by English Heritage.
1849
Engraving
after a lithograph by Y. Maguire. 
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'The three wise men.'
Hooker, Lyell and Darwin.1851.
'A Monograph of
the Fossil
Lepadidae;
or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain.' London, Palaeontographical Society.
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In October
1838.. I happened to
read for amusement
Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the
struggle for existence
which everywhere goes on
from long- continued
observation of the habits of
animals and plants, it at once struck me
that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to
be
preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The results of this would be the
formation of a
new species. Here, then I had at last got a
theory by which to work. |
