From Alfred Russel Wallace 20 January 1865
Summary
His distress that his engagement has been broken off.
Sends copies of two papers ["On the parrots of the Malayan region", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1864): 279–97;
"On the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 33 (1863): 217–34].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4750 |
To A. R. Wallace 29 January [1865]
Summary
Commends ARW’s papers on parrots
and on the theory of geographical distribution [see 4750].
Wild pigs in Aru Islands must have been introduced and later ran wild. Does ARW have an opinion on the subject?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 29 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4757 |
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 |
To A. R. Wallace 1 February [1865]
Summary
Exchange of photographs.
Aru pigs present perplexing case, whether wild or domesticated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 1 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4760 |
From A. R. Wallace 18 September 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].
Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4894 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 September [1865]
Summary
Crests as inherited variations; domesticated birds.
Belief in value of travel journals.
Current reading.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434 f. 56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4896 |
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 |
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