The Foundations of the Origin of Species / Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844

by Charles Darwin

[{24}] Life and Letters, i. p. 153.

[{25}] Life and Letters, i. p. 84.

[{26}] In the footnotes to the Essay of 1844 attention is called to similar passages.

[{27}] Life and Letters, ii. p. 15.

[{28}] The passage is given in the Life and Letters, ii. p. 124.

[{29}] The extract consists of the section on Natural Means of Selection, p. 87.

[{30}] Life and Letters, i. p. 84.

[{31}] Life and Letters, ii. p. 18.

[{32}] Mrs Darwin’s brother.

[{33}] After Mr Strickland’s name comes the following sentence, which has been erased, but remains legible. “Professor Owen would be very good; but I presume he would not undertake such a work.”