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An aspiring geologist and the recently elected secretary to the Geological Society of London, it was imperative that Darwin write up his notes and realize the potential that his mentors had recognized in him and done so much to nurture. Even so, Herbert argues, he could not keep from transmutation. While Darwin’s earliest transmutation notes appear in his Red Notebook alongside his geological observations, once he had filled its pages he consciously separated out these two areas of study. 52 Transmutation, it seems, was Darwin’s “amusement” in these busy days filled with geology, and thus, while he might have been turned on to some significant passage in Malthus across the dinner table, it is clear that he picked up the book with the full expectation that it would shed light on transmutation.
Frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden; courtesy History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries) ev ery che ating tr a desm a n 33 Darwin scholars have long noted the evolutionary themes of Erasmus Darwin’s poetry, and despite the younger Darwin’s claims to the contrary, they were significant for his thoughts on evolution. However, also important were the radical politics at the heart of this poetry and the connections that Erasmus Darwin drew between his hopes for humanity and his transmutationism.
His mind racing, he had no time for full sentences, correct spelling, or punctuation. 3 Darwin had joined Beagle as naturalist in December 1831 after the ship’s captain, Robert FitzRoy, had lamented not having someone aboard with this type of talent and experience on his previous voyage. Darwin was more than adequately qualified; he had not only studied geology, marine biology, botany, chemistry, and entomology during his time at Edinburgh and Cambridge, but medicine as well. 4 Certainly, conventions of class and naval discipline meant that months at sea could be a lonely experience for a ship’s captain, despite the cramped conditions.