Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2

"There is a point of view so lofty or so peculiar that from it we are able to discern in men and women something more than and apart from creed and profession and formulated pri...

Of the varied subjects upon which Wallace wrote, none, perhaps, came with greater freshness to the general reader than his books written when he was nearly eighty upon the ancie...

Dear Mr. Wallace,--Though we differ on some points we agree on many, and one of the points on which we doubtless agree is the absurdity of Lord Salisbury's representation of the...

My dear Sir,--When I thanked you for your little pamphlet[9] the other day, I had not read it. I have since done so with great interest. Its leading idea is, I think, undoubtedl...

In our father's youth and prime he was 6 ft. 1 in. in height, with square though not very broad shoulders. At the time to which our first clear recollections go back he had alre...

"When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honour are things to be ashamed of."--CONF...

The publication in 1859 of the "Origin of Species"[1] marked a distinct period in the course of Darwin's scientific labours; his previous publications had, in a measure, prepare...

Birds, flight of, i. 145-6, ii. 25 _et seq._; colour problem of, i. 184, 185, 212, 226-9, 230, 252, 289 (note), 302; polygamous, 194, 199; migration of, ii. 19, 20; instincts of...

Hooker, Sir Joseph, birth of, i. 5, 76; on oak trees, 56; and the Darwin-Wallace joint paper, 71, 111, 113, 119, 134, 136, 137, 139; receives the Darwin-Wallace Medal, 117; spee...

Westminster Abbey, graves and memorials of men of science in, i. 1; petition to Dean and Chapter as to medallion to Wallace in, ii. 253; unveiling of the medallion, 254

---- letters from: on Darwin Commemoration volume, ii. 91; on Sir F. Darwin's "Foundations" and the Darwin celebration, 92; on Evolution and the fundamental powers and propertie...

---- natural, theory of, i. 155, 156, 170 _et seq._, 195 _et seq._, 218, 240, 267, 298, 301, ii. 16-17, 63, 75, 94, 96, 98, 101, 150; discovery of, i. 2, 89-126; anticipations o...

---- ---- ---- letters to Prof. Meldola: on physiological selection, ii. 36-8; on Natural Selection, 41, 42-3; on Meldola's controversy with Romanes, 50-1; on individual adaptab...

Poulton, Prof., and Weismann's "Essays upon Heredity," ii. 44-6; paper on colours of larva, pupa, etc., 54; appointed Hope Professor of Zoology in Oxford University, 57; exposur...

"Origin of Species," Darwin's, i. 67, 72, 76-8, 112, 121, 124, 125, 129, 134, 136, 139, 141, 146, 164, 174, 176, 224, 240, 241, 244, 246, 264-5, 271, ii. 1, 2, 77; reviews of, i...

---- ---- ---- letters to Charles Darwin: on the Timor honeycomb, i. 143; on Darwin's "Orchids," 143; on theory of flight, 145; on Spencer's "Social Statics," 150; on Borneo exp...

---- ---- ---- letters to Sir W.F. Barrett: on the nebular hypothesis, ii. 174; on Mars, 176; on experiments with sensitives and on prosecution of Slade, 197; on Dr. Carpenter,...

describing work at Singapore, 48; on Malacca and missionaries, 49; on his collections and visit to Rajah Brooke, 51; on the Rajah, 59; on correspondence from Darwin and Hooker,...