From A. R. Wallace [23 January 1863?]
Summary
Now recalls a Melastoma visited by some small Cetoniadae and bees (Xylocopa) in Malay Archipelago.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Jan 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.8: 70 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4390 |
To A. R. Wallace [29? September 1863]
Summary
Baffling problems with Melastoma. Appreciates ARW’s help with it and the "gorze case".
Has read report of ARW’s paper [to Newcastle BAAS meeting, "On the geographical distribution of animal life"] in the Reader [2 (1863): 352–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [29? Sept 1863] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS. 46434: 36–7b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4310 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To A. R. Wallace [29? September 1863] …
- … and the letter from A. R. Wallace, 26 September 1863 ; the first Tuesday after that date …
- … 1863] ). See letter from A. R. Wallace, 26 September 1863 and n. 2. CD never published …
- … 1863] , and letter to Hermann Crüger, 25 January [1863] . See letter from A. R. Wallace, …
From A. R. Wallace 26 September 1863
Summary
Encloses flowers of Melastoma from Singapore.
Acclimatisation of plants.
Striped horses in London.
Bees’ cells; has been promised information from the East.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 146–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4308 |
Smith, Frederick. 1863a. Notes on the geographical distribution of the aculeate Hymenoptera collected by Mr A. R. Wallace in the Eastern Archipelago. [Read 5 March 1863.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 7: 109–45.
From A. R. Wallace 2 January 1864
Summary
Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells
and Origin.
Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.
Work problems.
His butterfly collection.
Problems with book on Malay journey.
Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.
Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B8–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … R. Wallace, 1 January 1864 . Wallace’s review ( Wallace 1863a ) of Haughton 1862 was published in the October 1863 …
- … November 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11). See also letter to A. R. Wallace, 1 January …
- … R. Wallace, [ c. 10 April 1864] . See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 [June 1863] , …
From H. W. Bates 24 January 1863
Summary
Wallace noticed that melastomads in Malay archipelago were visited by small Hymenoptera.
Darwinism discussed at the last meeting of the Zoological Society. The Darwinians had the best of it.
HWB has committed the "folly" of marriage [to Sarah Ann Mason, 15 Jan 1863].
Printing of vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons] is nearly finished.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3941 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Archipelago. See letter from A. R. Wallace, [23 January 1863? ] . For CD’s interest in …
- … 1863 My Dear M r Darwin Although I cannot supply you with any information on the subject you mention I think it well to write saying that the day before receiving your last on repeating your enquiry to M r Wallace …
To Hugh Falconer 5 [and 6] January [1863]
Summary
His admiration for HF’s paper on American fossil elephant.
Notes "temporary irruption of S. American forms into N. America".
Rejoices that HF has "smashed" case of Mastodon on Timor.
Shares HF’s anger at Owen.
He is eager to hear about fossil bird [Archaeopteryx].
Comments on criticisms of species theory by [Johann Andreas?] Wagner.
Describes research on fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 5 and 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3901 |
From Hugh Falconer 18 January [1863]
Summary
Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3926 |
From Charles James Fox Bunbury to Charles Lyell 3 February 1866
Summary
Discusses Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of Brazil.
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 134–6. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4995F |
To A. R. Wallace 17 June 1876
Summary
Further detailed comments on Geographical distribution.
Base treatment [of George Darwin] by Mivart in Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 17 June 1876 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10538 |
From Edward Blyth 19 February 1867
Summary
Encloses memorandum on Origin [1866]
discussing mimicry in mammals and birds,
abnormal habits shown by birds,
behaviour of cuckoos,
and analogies existing between mammals of the same geographical region.
Speculates on possible lines of development linking groups of mammals.
[CD’s notes on the verso of the letter are for his reply.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 209, 209/1 & 2, DAR 47: 190, 190a, DAR 80: B99–99a, DAR 205.11: 138, DAR 48: A75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5405 |
From H. W. Bates 17 October 1862
Summary
Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.
Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].
Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3771 |
From Hugh Falconer 9 January 1863
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3909 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … which reviewed A. R. Wallace 1853 , Hooker 1854 , and Bates 1863 , as well as other …
- … 1863] and n. 7). In Origin , pp. 357–8, CD remained highly sceptical of Forbes’s theory in its broadest form, but admitted the possibility that there had been some land bridges. CD was interested in the depth of the ocean as an indicator of a boundary between different faunal regions (see letter to A. R. Wallace, …
From H. W. Bates 11 January 1877
Summary
Encloses extract [missing] on a caterpillar.
Mentions William Buckler’s magnificent drawings of caterpillars [The larvae of the British butterflies and moths, Ray Soc. (1886–91)], but doubts Buckler will lend them for any Darwinian purpose. John Hellins has a portion of drawings and is more liberal.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10780 |
From A. R. Wallace 1 March 1868
Summary
Offers enclosure demonstrating that natural selection could produce sterility of hybrids.
More on Pangenesis and the inadequacy of H. Spencer’s approach.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B49–50, B53–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5966 |
To A. R. Wallace [c. 10 April 1864]
Summary
Has seen that ARW has read a paper to the Linnean Society.
Thinks that Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics (Spencer 1851) would be too deep for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [c. 10 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | The Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/856) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378F |
To T. W. Woodbury 7 December [1862]
Summary
Cannot aid TWW with respect to bees from East Indies. Suggests he write to Edward Blyth.
Thanks him for getting query on variation in bees circulated in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas White Woodbury |
Date: | 7 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 374 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3849 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1863 ). Alfred Russel Wallace returned to Britain from the Malay archipelago at the end of March 1862; in August, following a period of illness, he left London for a holiday in Devon (see letter from A. R. …
- … 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11; see nn. 2 and 5, below). Woodbury’s letter has not been found; however, he was interested in the possibility of naturalising non-native species of hive bee, and in August had sought CD’s assistance in procuring bees from West Africa (see letter from T. W. Woodbury, 9 August 1862 , letter to A. R. Wallace, …
From A. R. Wallace 29 May [1864]
Summary
Argues the antiquity of the human species because natural selection acts differently with respect to men. Changes in man are largely confined to head and brain. Warfare and sex are very uncertain as means of selection.
Gives CD complete credit for theory of natural selection.
Is beginning his narrative of his travels.
Lyell argues against tracing man as far back as Miocene times. R. I. Murchison’s argument that Africa is the oldest existing land implies that Africa is the place to look for early man.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B14–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4514 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 11. In 1869, Wallace published The Malay Archipelago ( Wallace 1869 ), an account of his travels from 1854 to 1862. Henry Walter Bates had earlier published The naturalist on the River Amazons ( Bates 1863 ); …
- … R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and nn. 11–18. Philip Lutley Sclater was a zoological editor and one of the two editors-in-chief of the Natural History Review (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 September 1863 …
From J. D. Hooker 29 May 1866
Summary
JDH sends a list of the principal confirmatory evidences of CD’s theory which he has prepared at W. R. Grove’s request for Nottingham speech ["Presidential address", Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5104 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Wallace, A. R. | (11) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Bates, H. W. | (4) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (46) |
Wallace, A. R. | (14) |
Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Bates, H. W. | (6) |
Falconer, Hugh | (3) |