Darwin's Illness

Excerpt

From time to time papers appear elsewhere which the editors believe would be of interest to the readers of the ANNALS. The following article is such a one and is reproduced by permission from the NEW STATESMAN, April 3, 1964. Dr. Medawar presents a fascinating new insight into the nature of the illness which was the background to the long years of Darwin's writing of the Origin of Species—a subject touched upon editorially in the ANNALSin February, 1963. Since this reproduction was planned, Dr. Medawar and we have learned of another paper on the same subject by Dr. Lawrence