Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Early days; 2. The Antarctic voyage: preliminaries; 3. The southern journey and its scientific scope; 4. The voyage of the Erebus and Terror: passing impressions; 5. Tasmania and the Antarctic; 6. South again: New Zealand and the Cape; 7. The Antarctic voyage: personal; 8. Return to England: and visit to Paris; 9. Edinburgh; 10. The Geological Survey; 11. The voyage to India; 12. Journey to the Kymore Hills; 13. To Darjiling: the first Himalayan journey; 14. The second Himalayan journey; 15. Captivity and release; 16. Last days in Sikkim; 17. To the Khasia Mountains; 18. The return from India; 19. Botany: its position and prospects in the fifties; 20. Science teaching: examinations; 21. Science organisation: societies, journals, and rewards; 22. Miscellaneous, 1850–60; 23. Letters to Darwin, 1843–59; 24. On species; 25. The making of the 'Origin': science and friendship; 26. Publication of the 'Origin' and the 'Introduction to the Tasmanian Flora'; 27. The journey to Palestine and the work of 1860.

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The standard biography of the botanist, of which this first volume includes many letters written to Charles Darwin.