River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-05-04
DarWin's Death.

News from the old world brings the
intelligence that Charles Robert OAR
win, the well-known scientist. is dead
Darwin had been i'll some days, and
was supposed recovering, but he had
relapse Tuesday, and never recovered.
Darwin suffered for some time from
weakness of the heart. but continued
to work to the last. He was taken i'll
Tuesday night with pains in the chest,
faintness and nausea. The nausea
lasted more or less during Wednesday
and eliminated in death in the after
noon. He remained fully conscious
until within quarter of an hour of luis
death.
Charles Robert Darwin was a grand
son of DR.. Erasmus Darwin, the Eng
lish Psychologist and poet who attained
distinction in a work entitled ''The
Botanical Garden" book of poems in
which the economy of vegetation is por-
trayed in verse and the plants persona
fed as sylphs, nymphs, salamanders,
etc., and the machinery for illustrating
the loves in flowers thereby obtained.
While the father of tho great theorist,
r. W. Darwin, attained no public dis
tincti IN, there is little reason to doubt
that it was to his early training of the
mind of young Charles Darwin that the
world is indebted to the Darwinian
theory, that has become household
word in all English-speaking lands at
least. The subject of this sketch first
saw the light of day at Shrewsbury,
England, on the 18th of February,
1909. He attended the grammar school
in his native place, and in 1875 entered
the University of Edinburg. Two years
later he was
| A STUDENT AT CHRIsTS COLLEGE,
Cambridge, and took his degree in
1881. Capt. Fitzroy was at this time
preparing for an exploring expedition
around the world, and Young Darwin
volunteered to accompany him. On
the I'd Of October, 1881, the exploring
ship Beagle left her moorings for the
Tourney, which was accomplished in
| 1884, having in the meantime visited
Australia, New Zealand, the Mauritius,
the islands ofthe Pacific, and the South
American coast. The result Of the
voyage was published in three volumes
in 1889, the last being from Mr.. Oar
wins pen, and devoted to his discover
les in geology and natural history. The
volume was afterwards published as
separate volume in 1916. In 1912 he
| issued "The Structure and distribution
of Coral Reefs" two years later, Geo
logical Observations in South America. !"
He edited Zoology of the Voyage of
the Beagle" which was issued IN 1913.
Besides numerous scientific articles, he
published in 1918 two volumes,
Monograph of the Family Corripedia, .
followed by two other volumes on the
fossil species of the same class. After
disappearing from public notice for
some time, he came out with his cele-
brated work, the
''oRIGIN OF SPECIES
by Means of Natural Selection. 1t
created a sensation, and after passing
through many editions in English, was
translated into French, German, Dutch
and Italian, and has been subjected to
more pamphlets and criticisms than
any work yet issued from the
pen of any author Its aim is to ac-
count for the diversity Of life on the
globe by means of continuous develop
ment. A supplementary work was
published in 1871, under the title of
l"1ne Descent OF man anu oeleCtlOn IN
Relation to Sex" in which the ground
is taken that man is descended from
a hairy quadruped, furnished with a
tail, pointed ears, and arboreal in his
habits. He was made the recipient of
numerous honors from the scientific
societies of Europe, and was every
where recognized as one of the pro-
found thinkers of the age. His last
work was sOn the Expression of the
Emotions of Men and Animals
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A youth to fortune and to fame I'M
known sends Dumas the manuscript OF
new play, asking the great dramatist
to become his collaboration. Dumas
is for moment petrifed, then siez es
his pen and replies: How dare you,