From A. R. Wallace 21 July 1875
Summary
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 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 July [1875]
Summary
Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.
CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10088 |
From A. R. Wallace 7 November 1875
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10247 |
To A. R. Wallace 23 December 1875
Summary
E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 23 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10322 |
To A. R. Wallace 28 December 1875
Summary
Is glad ARW will attend to vote for Lankester [at the Linnean Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 28 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10330 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 June 1876
Summary
Response to ARW’s "grand and memorable work" [Geographical distribution (1876)]. Most interesting part to CD is ARW’s "protest against sinking imaginary continents".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 June 1876 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10531 |
From A. R. Wallace 7 June 1876
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10535 |
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 |
To A. R. Wallace 25 June 1876
Summary
Has finished Geographical distribution; sends his comments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 25 June 1876 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10550 |
From A. R. Wallace 23 July 1876
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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 |
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 3 September 1877
Summary
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 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 September [1877]
Summary
Further discussion of evidence for sexual selection. Prefers "conscious" to "voluntary" action. Distinguishes features that serve as charms and those that serve as challenges.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11127 |
From A. R. Wallace 14 September 1878
Summary
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 |
To A. R. Wallace 16 September 1878
Summary
Supports Epping Forest appointment.
Continues work on vegetable physiology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 16 Sept 1878 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11695 |
From A. R. Wallace 23 September 1878
Summary
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 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 January 1880
Summary
Admiration of ARW’s ["The origin of species and genera", Nineteenth Century (Jan 1880)]. Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches".
Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment.
Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 286–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12401 |
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