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CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN, died on the 20th inst., at his home, Down House, near Beckenham, England. The news comes at the moment of going to press, leaving us only time to make mere reference to the fact in the present number.

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CHARLES DARWIN.─ The whole world has summed up the life of Darwin. No man has departed more sincerely mourned, —no man's life has been more useful, — few men have left the world whom it will be as slow to forget. For many ages the name of Darwin will be honored as the one man above all others who taught us how to talk with Nature. If it should prove that he did not always interpret her language correctly, it will not be the less to his credit. No one before him did what he has done. Others may learn more, but only by following in his footsteps.

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Memoir of Charles Darwin. — By Prof. Alphonse DeCandolle. The publication committee of the "Archives de Sciences de la Bibliotheque Universelle" have published in their May number, a paper by DeCandolle on "Darwin considered in the aspect of the causes of his success, and the importance of his labors "which may be classed as among the most eloquent of the many tributes to this remarkable man, who, considered at first as the enemy of all religion, came in the end to be so highly venerated as to be buried in Westminster Abbey, amid solemn religious services, followed to the grave by a long course of English clergymen, who sincerely expressed their deep sorrow for the world's great loss. The fixity of species, which before his time few dared question, has been entirely annihilated and chiefly by the courageous devotion of Darwin to his work. There are few living scientific men, who receive new views with more caution than DeCandolle, and it must be regarded as among the triumphs of Darwinism, that such an eminent man is found among Darwin's warm eulogists.

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ESTATE OF THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN.─ Mr. Darwin's personal property proves to be about three-quarters of a million of dollars. Bu his will, Prof. Huxley has $5000 and Sir Joseph Hooker $5000. The balance of his estate is divided between his wife, five sons, and two daughters.