To A. R. Wallace 16 September [1868]
Summary
CD’s oscillating views relating to protection and sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 16 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 149–50) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6368 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To A. R. Wallace 16 September [1868] …
- … See the letter from A. R. Wallace, [14 September 1868] . CD evidently discussed beetles …
- … see the letter from A. R. Wallace, [14 September 1868] and n. 5. Musk beetles, …
- … see especially letter from A. R. Wallace, 1 May [1868] , and letters to A. R. Wallace, …
To A. R. Wallace 9 April [1868]
Summary
Warns ARW of dubious character of list of European alpine genera and species in volcanoes of Hawaii. Problems of geographical distribution in oceanic islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6109 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To A. R. Wallace 9 April [1868] …
- … 8 [April] 1868 and n. 8). See letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 and n. 7. …
- … letter and the letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 . CD refers to Berthold Carl …
- … 1868 ). The Sandwich Islands was the name given to the Hawaiian islands by James Cook in 1778 ( Columbia gazetteer of the world ). New Holland was the earlier Dutch name for Australia. CD had briefly discussed the geology of Hawaii in Coral reefs , pp. 61–2, 131, 158–9. CD refers to Lyell 1867–8 , 2: 402–32 (see letter from A. R. Wallace, …
From A. R. Wallace 24 February 1868
Summary
Responds to CD’s queries on polygamy in birds and orang.
Discusses sexual selection and secondary characters; colours and sexual preference.
Expresses his admiration for Pangenesis; it is superior to Herbert Spencer’s theory.
ARW differs somewhat with CD’s chapter on causes of variability [ch. 22 in Variation]. Thinks several of CD’s arguments are unsound.
Briefly discusses how natural selection might aid in producing sterility between allied species.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B70–2, DAR 86: A10–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5922 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 February [1868]
Summary
Reports work on sexual selection. Problems with the relative numbers of the two sexes and polygamy. Asks ARW’s help with several questions on polygamous birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 104–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5912 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 March [1868]
Summary
On critical exchanges at the Linnean Society on natural selection and mimicry.
Roland Trimen’s paper on South African mimetic butterflies ["On some remarkable mimetic resemblances among African butterflies", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 26 (1870): 497–523; read 5 Mar 1868].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B51–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5996 |
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 1 March 1868 …
- … but see the letter from A. R. Wallace, 15 March [1868] , and the letter to A. R. …
- … 1868 , Herbert Spencer had commented on pangenesis, noting that the hypothesis differed from his own theory of hereditary transmission. See letter to A. R. Wallace, …
- … 1868] ). The enclosure was published in ML 1: 289–93, together with footnotes written by Wallace and dated 1899. The manuscript version of the footnotes is in DAR 106: B56. Wallace published the first eleven paragraphs of the enclosure in A. R. …
- … 1868] and n. 5. Wallace did not publish a review of Variation . CD and Emma Darwin were in London from 3 March to 1 April 1868 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 16, Appendix II)). Roland Trimen read his paper ( R. …
To A. R. Wallace 5 [July 1870]
Summary
CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 [July 1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 204–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7218 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 16, letter to A. R. Wallace, 15 April [1868] and nn. 3 and 4, and letter from …
- … R. Wallace, 6 July 1870 . CD refers to Wallace’s theory that the colour of female birds that sat on open nests had been modified as a result of the protection gained by camouflage (see Wallace 1867a , [Wallace] 1867b, Wallace 1867c , Wallace 1868 ; …
To A. R. Wallace 31 August 1877
Summary
Response to Wallace’s article ["The colours of animals and plants", Macmillan’s Mag. (Sept 1877)] on sexual colours and "voluntary" sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11121 |
From A. R. Wallace [14 September 1868]
Summary
On sounds produced by Euchirus longimanus beetle. Sends a pair by post.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Sept 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A25–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6364 |
From A. R. Wallace 30 August [1868]
Summary
On triumph of "Darwinianism".
Discussion of their differences on subject of protection.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B65–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6334 |
Matches: 3 hits
From Roland Trimen 20 March [1868]
Summary
On attraction of males by females in moths. H. T. Stainton mentions a case.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A92–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6030 |
To J. J. Weir 18 April [1868]
Summary
Discusses rapid replacement of mates among birds. "I begin to think that the pairing of birds must be as delicate and tedious an operation as the pairing of young gentlemen and ladies. If I can convince myself that there are habitually many unpaired birds it will be a great aid to me in sexual selection". Notes rivalry of singing birds.
Heard from George Rolleston of the inherited effects of an eye injury.
Disagrees with A. R. Wallace’s idea "that birds learn to make their nests from having seen them whilst young" ["The philosophy of birds’ nests", Intellect. Obs. 11 (1867): 413–20].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6128 |
From A. R. Wallace 4 February 1866
Summary
Looks forward to reading Variation.
Explains how two or more female forms occur in one species through selection. The physiological problem remains of how each produces offspring like the other without intermediates. Is not CD’s case of varieties that will not blend the physiological test of a species needed for "complete proof of the origin of species"?
"Travels" postponed.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4997 |
From A. R. Wallace 5 September [1868]
Summary
Accepts invitation.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6350 |
To A. R. Wallace 29 April [1867]
Summary
Comments on ARW’s view of colouring in relation to sexual selection and protection. It is not new to CD. Hopes to discuss subject fully in his "Essay on Man" [Descent]. As to the problem of brightly coloured females, CD is not satisfied that it is due to males taking over incubation. Admires "value and beauty" of ARW’s generalisations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 29 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 84) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5517 |
From A. R. Wallace 15 March [1868]
Summary
Coloration of butterflies; brilliantly coloured females.
Commends CD on his paper on specific differences in Primula [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54; reprinted and revised in Forms of flowers] as a test-case proving origin of real species.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: 23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6012 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 15 March [1868] …
- … 1868. Wallace was evidently under the impression that CD’s paper, ‘Specific difference in Primula ’ , would demonstrate that crosses between the cowslip ( Primula veris ) and the primrose ( P. vulgaris ) were sterile. For more on the concept of ‘physiological’ species, see Correspondence vol. 14, letter from A. R. …
From A. R. Wallace 16 August [1868]
Summary
The problem of sterility, and its relation to natural selection.
George Bentham’s support of Darwinism.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B63–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6318 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 16 August [1868] …
- … 1868 issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society of London ( Botany ). See letter to George Bentham, 23 June 1868 and nn. 1, 3, and 4. Hooker was president of the British Association, which held its annual meeting at Norwich from 19 to 26 August 1868 ( Report of the 38th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , p. lvii). The Malay archipelago … a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature ( A. R. Wallace …
From G. H. Darwin [27] March [1868]
Summary
Discusses law versus engineering and business as a career.
Supposes ARW will have "squashed" GHD’s criticisms of his notes on sterility.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27] Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6047 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1868]
Summary
Does not understand JDH on Pangenesis: on last page he appears to admit all that he regards as mere words on previous pages.
Wallace admires chapter on Pangenesis.
Pangenesis is a comfort. CD gains no idea from words like "potentiality" or "diffusing an influence"; atoms and cells give a distinct idea.
A. Newton told George that Berthold Seemann wrote the Athenæum review
and that Lewis [Lewes] did not write the Pall Mall Gazette review [see 5874].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 55–7c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5951 |
From A. B. Buckley 16 December 1879
Summary
On Wallace’s need for a regular income. He has been rejected as Superintendent of Epping Forest. Thinks men such as Lubbock, Hooker, and CD might help.
| Author: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 366 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12358 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (51) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (32) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Shaw, James | (2) |
| Trimen, Roland | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (53) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (25) |
| Weir, J. J. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Trimen, Roland | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (104) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (57) |
| Weir, J. J. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Trimen, Roland | (6) |
