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From A. R. Wallace   21 July 1875

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Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 106: B121–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10085

From A. R. Wallace   7 November 1875

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Thanks for Climbing plants [2d ed.].

Is reading proofs [of Geographical distribution (1876)].

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Nov 1875
Classmark:  DAR 106: B123
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10247

From A. R. Wallace   7 June 1876

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Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.

Plans to sell his house.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 June 1876
Classmark:  DAR 106: B124
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10535

From A. R. Wallace   23 July 1876

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Responds to CD’s comments and criticism of Geographical distribution.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 July 1876
Classmark:  DAR 106: B126–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10564

From A. R. Wallace   13 December 1876

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Responds to CD’s new work [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Suggests results might have been more convincing if CD had measured weights instead of heights. The fact that infertile hybrids have not been produced means that the "one great objection" has not been got rid of: the physiological characteristic of species. Suggests an experiment to produce "sterile mongrels" which would remove objection.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Dec 1876
Classmark:  DAR 106: B130–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10717

From A. R. Wallace   17 January 1877

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Thanks for new edition of Orchids.

The remarkable papers of Mott on Ernst Haeckel ["On Haeckel’s history of creation", Proc. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 31 (1876–7): 41–89].

The part played by carbon in geological changes.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1877
Classmark:  DAR 106: B132–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10801

From A. R. Wallace   23 July 1877

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Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.

Further objections to "voluntary" sexual selection. Believes that he can explain all the phenomena of sexual ornaments and colours by laws of development aided by simple natural selection.

Excited by Thomas Belt’s "oceanic glacier river-damming" hypothesis. The last paper, "Glacial period in the Southern Hemisphere" in the Quarterly Journal of Science is particularly fine.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 July 1877
Classmark:  DAR 106: B134–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11067

From A. R. Wallace   3 September 1877

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Sexual selection, he thinks, must be left to others to settle. "Conscious" will be substituted for "voluntary" selection. Sound- and scent-producing organs attributed to "natural", not "conscious", selection.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Sept 1877
Classmark:  DAR 106: B136–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11125

From A. R. Wallace   14 September 1878

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Requests support for his appointment as Superintendent of Epping Forest.

Working on a book [Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel, edited and extended by A. R. Wallace (1879)].

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Sept 1878
Classmark:  DAR 106: B138–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11693

From A. R. Wallace   23 September 1878

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Thanks for CD’s support for [Epping Forest] appointment. Doubts about the proposed management.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Sept 1878
Classmark:  DAR 106: B140–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11705

From A. R. Wallace   9 January 1880

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Gratified by CD’s praise.

Describes plan of his new book [Island life (1880)].

Efforts to secure a post.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 106: B142–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12412

From A. R. Wallace   11 October 1880

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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   8 November 1880

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Response to CD’s notes [on Island life]:

1. On relation of paucity of fossils to coldness of water;

2. Cessation of the glacial period;

3. Rate of deposit and geological time;

4. The importance of preoccupation (by plants) in relation to plants arriving later.

Charge of speculative explanations is just.

Defends plausibility of migration of plants from mountain to mountain.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 106: B145–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12803

From A. R. Wallace   21 November 1880

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Thanks for book [Movement in plants].

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 106: B149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12835

From A. R. Wallace   1 January 1881

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ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Jan 1881
Classmark:  DAR 271.6: a6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12964

From A. R. Wallace   8 January 1881

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Appreciation of CD’s efforts in recommending him for pension. Asks about proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Jan 1881
Classmark:  DAR 106: B150–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12994

From A. R. Wallace   29 January 1881

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Further information about the pension with particular thanks to CD for his role.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Jan 1881
Classmark:  DAR 106: B152–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13033

From A. R. Wallace   9 July 1881

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Enthusiasm for Henry George’s Progress and poverty. Considers it to rank with Adam Smith’s work. His own work on the land question [Land nationalisation (1882)].

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 106: B154–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13238

From A. R. Wallace   18 October 1881

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Thanks for book [Earthworms]. Asks whether leaf-mould is not formed by decay as well as by the agency of worms.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Oct 1881
Classmark:  DAR 106: B156–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13413

From A. R. Wallace   [27 September 1857]

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Refers to CD’s letter of "May last". ARW’s views on order of succession of species are in accordance with CD’s.

Disappointed that his paper ["On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 16 (1855): 184–96] elicited no discussion; now ARW is trying to prove it. Paper merely states the theory.

On black jaguars breeding inter se: ARW has never heard of a parti-coloured one.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [27 Sept 1857]
Classmark:  DAR 47: 145
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2145
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