Paper on ‘The Life & Works of Charles Darwin’

Mr. Hewett, F.E.S. of York read an essay on the above subject.

The Life works of the Great Naturalist were succinctly mentioned, attention being made to the heredity of the man himself from some men & women of observational tendencies. His patient accumulation of hosts of facts in support of his ideas of evolution from the time of his voyage on the Beagle to the publication of the Origin. The storm created by the appearance of the latter work. How he, unlike most great philosophers lived to see his ideas generally accepted. His modesty & kindness to lesser lights in the Scientific world. A mention was then made of his chief published works & his time occupied on them. Finally, his death & burial were recounted with quotations from Huxley & Grant Allen after his death.