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: 4 hits
- … D. Hooker, [10 and 12 January 1864] , and 3 November [1864] ; letters to J. D. Hooker, …
- … CUL. See also letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 and n. 5. See Correspondence …
- … 1: 770). See also letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 and n. 8, Spencer 1864–7 , …
- … see, for example, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 November [1864] , and n. 20, above). At …
From A. R. Wallace 31 January [1865]
Summary
Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.
Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4759 |
From A. R. Wallace 11 October 1880
Summary
Indicates portions of Island life that will interest CD. Explanation of the geological climate is the foundation stone of the book.
Hooker’s approval of the theory of Australian and New Zealand floras.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12752 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 October 1865
Summary
Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.
Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].
Book of travels postponed indefinitely.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B27–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4906 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 and n. 23, and letter from A. R. …
- … 1864 to July 1865 there was no editor-in-chief of the Reader (Sullivan ed. 1984, p. 349). Editorial responsibilities, especially for the scientific content, were divided among a number of persons, including William Fraser Rae and Thomas Henry Huxley ( Byrne 1964 , p. 63). For more on the ownership and operation of the Reader , see the letter from J. D. Hooker, …
From A. R. Wallace 10 May 1864
Summary
On the Borneo cave exploration.
ARW will send his contribution to theory of origin of man. The vast mental and cranial differences between man and apes, whereas structural differences in other parts of body are small. The problem of explaining diversity of human races along with the stability of man’s form during all historical epochs. Discussion with "Anthropologicals" [following reading of ARW’s paper, "The origin of human races", before the Anthropological Society, 1 Mar 1864].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B12–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4490 |
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 |