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A Natural Calling

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9233-6

ISBN: 978-1-4020-9232-9

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2009

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Grandfathers and Fathers

Larkum, Anthony W. D.

Pages: 1 –11

[On the 12th November 1756, a young physician, not long out of medical school at Edinburgh University, armed with letters of introduction, set up his shingle at the cathedral town of Lichfield, in the Midlands of England, in the time of George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland. This was...
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Christ’s College, Cambridge (1824-1826)

Larkum, Anthony W. D.

Pages: 13 –44

[On October 19th 1824 a young man of nineteen made his farewells to his family on a country estate just outside Derby and set off in a horse-drawn mail coach to become an undergraduate at Christ’s College, Cambridge. This was William Darwin Fox, second cousin to Charles Darwin, who would be...
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Charles Darwin at Cambridge: The Letters to William Darwin Fox

Larkum, Anthony W. D.

Pages: 45 –116

[Just over three years after the arrival of William Darwin Fox in Cambridge, another young man of nineteen arrived, in early 1828, who was destined to cause one of the biggest upheavals of the Nineteenth Century. Charles Darwin did not come directly from school as Fox did; he had left Shrewsbury...
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Darwin’s Voyage on the Beagle

Larkum, Anthony W. D.

Pages: 117 –167

[The “Voyage of the Beagle” is now as iconic an event in the life of Charles Darwin, as it is in the history of science. However, this is only with the hindsight of history and one should not forget the fact that there was a previous voyage and many subsequent voyages of this surveying ship of...
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Professions, Marriage, Families and Illness

Larkum, Anthony W. D.

Pages: 169 –231

[For Charles Darwin, 1837-38 was a crucial time. Something quite extraordinary but unrecorded had happened. It must have been at this stage in his life that he embarked on a mental program that was to direct him for the rest of his life. The Darwin that emerged in these years is a quantum jump...
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The “Origin of Species”

Larkum, Anthony W. D.

Pages: 233 –306

[The period of the letters in this chapter, early 1856 to mid 1860, covers not only a most significant period in the lives of Charles Darwin and his cousin William Fox but a watershed in the history of science and the effect of Darwin’s ideas on society as a whole. The period sees a burgeoning of...
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The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Living in the Shadow of Fame

Larkum, Anthony W. D.

Pages: 307 –354

[The publication of “On the origin of Species” in November 1859 projected Charles Darwin into such an exalted orbit that it was bound not only to affect his relationship with William Darwin Fox, but with the world in general. The first signs of this are hard to detect but probably affected both...
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The Final Years

Larkum, Anthony W. D.

Pages: 355 –420

[At first in this last period of the lives of Darwin and Fox, every thing continues much as before, although, in fact, we are in a very different world from the frivolous days of riding, shooting and youthful camararderie of Chapters 2 and 3. The period begins with a series of letters, concerning...

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