New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-03
CHARLES D1R WIN.
THE NATURALIsT's LAST DAYS.

grog, The Standard (LondonJ. Aprii II.
Mr. Darwin, whose health mad not for many years
been good, had been suffering from a weak heart
for some little time past, with recurring fits OF
1antness, but he was not sufficiently III to be con.
1ued to his room, nor, indeed until within fort
night to the house. About two months since the
symptoms developed themselves III "A more agra
waited form, and about month ago lie was forbid
den TO walk up down stairs, as the eXertlon was
considered too much for hun. "A char was accord
ingly constructed on which he was conveyed to
and from his bedroom on the upper noOr, but with
rare exceptions he sufficiently well TO leave his
loom aud be carried to his study, IRON which he
walked to the adjoining rooms, or, when the
weather was favorable for short distance into the
grounds he loved so well. During this period he
never ceased from pursuing sach work as his
strength would admit of his dong. and even so late
rs tuesday evening. at O'Clock. lie was IN MS
study examining plant which he had Instructed
one of his servants TO bring him. AT bali past he
vas carried up to his room, where he read Tor
short time before going TO bed. About midnight,
however, he was attacked with pain IL the chest
iaintness and nausea, and carriage was at once
dispatched 10 ST. Mary Cray for Dr. Alirey, VINO as
quickly as possible was In attendance, and stayed
witt him to the end. After the arrival of the ned-
cal gentleman and the administration OF such
remedies as were necessary, Mi. Darwin raj lied
some " hat, and the pain left him. but he remained
In an extremely distressed condition OF weakness
until o'clock in the afternoon, when has death
took place In the meantime Dr. MoXOn had been
sent for from town, but he only arrived very short
time before Mr.. Darwn's decease. The patient
remained quite conscious until within quarter of
au hour OF his death, at which Mrs. Darwin his
son. Sir. Frank Darwin who has fer some time
acted his secretary, ana MS TWO uauBhleiS 1iSs
Darwin and Mrs Litchteld. were present AT the
moment of his death he was sitting, supported by
his son, by the side of the bed, on which he was
reyerenty laid SO as 1t was found that all was
over. " =,
About five and twenty or thirty years since Mr..
Darwin went through long course of hydr0pathic
treatment at Malvern and had special bath made
for him at Down, which he constantly used for a
couple OF years afterward. In the village OF Down.
which is between six and seven miles from Brom-
lev and near Cudham. he scarcely ever seen,
a. he confined himself almost exclusively to the
grounds adjoining his home, in which most of the
experiments OF which the world have had the ad
vantage were made. 1t was here that he pursued
his close study of the habits of worms which form
the subject of his latest work, minutely adjusted
frames of three feet square being fixed in various
places to enable him to follow their exact habits
under varying circumstances and here it was also
that he pursued those researches the results of
which were aiterward given in has remarkable book
Oh The Movements of Plants
THE GREATEST OF MODERN MEN OF SCIENCE.
From The Spectator.
By the death Of Charles Darwin England has
lost the most original well as far the most cele
brated of modern men Of science-the one man
whom European science would, with voice. prob
ably agree to consider the most eminent scientific