title: Darwin's Notebook: The Life, Times, and Discoveries of Charles Robert Darwin
author:  Jonathan Clements 
description: <div><B>Jonathan Clements</B> is a writer specializing in history and biography. He is the author of more than a dozen biographies of prominent people, including Marco Polo, Mao, and Confucius. He lives in London.</div>
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  **C a m b r i d g e L i b r a r y C o L L e C t i o n** _Books of enduring
  scholarly value_
  
  
  **Darwin**
  
  
  Two hundred years after his birth and 150 years after the publication of ‘On
  the Origin of Species’, Charles Darwin and his theories are still the focus of
  worldwide attention. This series offers not only works by Darwin, but also the
  writings of his mentors in Cambridge and elsewhere, and a survey of the
  impassioned scientific, philosophical and theological debates sparked by his
  
  
  ‘dangerous idea’.
  
  
  **The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin**
  
  
  This three-volume life of Charles Darwin, published five years after his
  death, was edited by his son Francis, who was his father’s col aborator in
  experiments in botany and who after his death took on the responsibility of
  overseeing the publication of his remaining manuscript works and letters.
  
  
  In the preface to the first volume, Francis Darwin explains his editorial
  principles: ‘In choosing lett