Preface
1. Early days
2. The Antarctic voyage: preliminaries
3. The southern journey and its scientific scope
4. The voyage of the Erebus and Terror: passing impressions
5. Tasmania and the Antarctic
6. South again: New Zealand and the Cape
7. The Antarctic voyage: personal
8. Return to England: and visit to Paris
9. Edinburgh
10. The Geological Survey
11. The voyage to India
12. Journey to the Kymore Hills
13. To Darjiling: the first Himalayan journey
14. The second Himalayan journey
15. Captivity and release
16. Last days in Sikkim
17. To the Khasia Mountains
18. The return from India
19. Botany: its position and prospects in the fifties
20. Science teaching: examinations
21. Science organisation: societies, journals, and rewards
22. Miscellaneous, 1850-60
23. Letters to Darwin, 1843-59
24. On species
25. The making of the 'Origin': science and friendship
26. Publication of the 'Origin' and the 'Introduction to the Tasmanian Flora'
27. The journey to Palestine and the work of 1860.

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