ABSTRACT
Charles Darwin’s children, as we have seen, often entered into his work and did not hesitate to argue with him; that stimulated him to further effort. In one letter to Joseph Hooker, Darwin congratulated himself on having an unfair advantage—in having extracted more facts and views from him than from any other person. Hooker was the first and one of the very few to whom Darwin, early in 1844, confided his belief in evolution. Huxley never came into Darwin’s life as did Henslow, Hooker, and Lyell; there was disparity in age as well as great difference in temperament and methods. Darwin incidentally remarked that he had been most moved by the sublimity of the scene from the summit of the Cordilleras. John Scott, an employee in the Botanic Gardens at Edinburgh, wrote Darwin about some of his experiments suggested by Darwin’s works. A young German naturalist had suffered from a flood in Brazil.
