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on principle of continuity, etc., 178-9; acknowledging Romanes' lecture and criticising lectures by Mr. See, 179-80

---- ---- ---- letter to Sir C. Lyell, on colour of man, ii. 29

---- ---- ---- letters to Mr. J.W. Marshall: on Hudson's observations and theories, ii. 53-4; conveying condolences, and views on a hereafter, 209; on his autobiography, 226

---- ---- ---- 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 adaptability, 55-6; on "discontinuous variation," 62-3; on Weismann's "Germinal Selection," 68-70; on Weismann's doctrine of non-inheritance of acquired characters, 70-1; on Weismann's "Germ Plasm," 72; on Fisher's "Physics of the Earth's Crust," 74; on Meldola's offer to read Wallace's paper at Royal Institute, 87-8

---- ---- ---- letter to Mr. Ben. R. Miller, on Sleeper's "Shall we have Common Sense?" ii. 98-9

---- ---- ---- letter to Mr. John (Lord) Morley, on Socialism, ii. 159

---- ---- ---- letter to Mr. M.J. Murphy, on Mr. Lloyd George, ii. 164-5

---- ---- ---- letter to Dr. Norris, on increasing weakness, ii. 136-7

---- letter to Miss Norris, on health and diet, ii. 136

---- ---- ---- letters to Prof. E.B. Poulton: on "Protective Value of Colour and Markings in Insects," ii. 39; on Weismann's "Essays upon Heredity," 44, 45; on Grant Allen's theory of origin of wheat, 46; on Cope's "Origin of the Fittest," 47; on Weismann's additional essays, 51-3; on non-heredity of acquired characters, 54-5; on maternal impression, 56-8; on Bateson's "Material for the Study of Variation," 60-1; on Poulton's "Theories of Evolution," 61-2; criticising Romanes, 63-5; on Poulton's Presidential Address to British Association, 71-2; on denudation and deposition, 73; on mutation, 79; on Poulton's Presidential Address to Entomological Society, 79; on Mendelism and mutation, 84; on Poulton's Introduction to "Essays on Evolution," 85-6; on invitation to lecture at Royal Institution, 87; on Lord Rothschild's butterflies, and Royal Institution lecture, 88-9; on an article in the _Times_, 89; on Bergson, 98; on Sleeper's alleged anticipation of Darwinism, 99-100; on declining the Oxford D.C.L. degree, 217-18; agreeing to accept the degree, 218

---- ---- ---- letters to Dr. Archdall Reid: on "Present Evolution of Man," ii. 67-8; on instinctive knowledge, 68; on "Ancient Britain and Invasions of Cæsar," 86; on Mendelism and Evolution, 92-3

---- ---- ---- letter to Mr. Clement Reid, on discovery of Miocene or Pliocene Man in India, ii. 62

---- ---- ---- letter to Mr. H.N. Ridley, on De Rougemont, ii. 76

---- ---- ---- letter to Mr. Alfred Russell, on vegetarianism, ii. 158

---- ---- ---- letters to Mr. G. Silk: on Alexandrian donkey-drivers, i. 45; on forthcoming visit to Sarawak, 52; on marriage, 87

---- ---- ---- letters to Mrs. Sims (his sister): on his assistant, i. 56, 60; on missionaries, 62; on life in Macassar, 64; on Java and its flora, 85

---- ---- ---- letters to Thomas Sims: on Singapore, i. 61; on monocular and binocular vision, Darwin's "Descent of Species," and belief and disbelief, 73

---- ---- ---- letters to Mr. E. Smedley: on Child's "Root Principles," ii. 83-4, 100-1; on prayer, 163; on Mars, 175; on horoscope, 215

---- ---- ---- letter to Dr. Edwin Smith, on Spiritualism, ii. 210

---- ---- ---- letter to Mr. C.G. Stuart-Menteith, on segregation of the unfit, ii. 160-1

---- ---- ---- letter to Mr. A.C. Swinton, on suggested lecture tour in Australia, ii. 155

---- ---- ---- letters to Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer: on botanical distribution and migration, ii. 34-5; on Darwin Commemoration volume, 90-1; on "World of Life," 93-5; on election to Royal Society, 221-2; on Romanes' charge against Wallace of plagiarism, 235-6

---- ---- ---- letter to Samuel Waddington, on origin of all living things, ii. 77-8

---- ---- ---- letters to Mr. A. Wiltshire: on the Liberal Government, ii. 162; on necessity for increased wages, 165

---- ---- ---- letter to an unknown correspondent, on fauna and flora of Borneo district, and Dyaks, i. 53

---- Annie (A.R. Wallace's wife), ii. 115, 252

---- Herbert (A.R. Wallace's brother), i. 28, ii. 182, 229

---- John (A.R. Wallace's brother), i. 11, 13, 15

---- Mary Ann (A.R. Wallace's mother), i. 9

---- Thomas Vere (A.R. Wallace's father), i. 8; Librarian of Hertford, 13; straitened circumstances of, 14, 15

---- Violet (daughter of A.R. Wallace), reminiscences of her father,