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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

Natural Selection sent to Darwin from, i. 106, ii. 39 Tertiary Period, i. 159, 292, 294, 295 Thayer's theory of animal colouring, ii. 36 Theories of Evolution, Poulton's, ii. 61 Theory of Development and Heredity, Orr's, ii. 60 of Natural Selection from a Mathematical Point of View, Bennett's, i. 253 of Population, Spencer's, i. 124 Thiselton-Dyer, Sir W. T.: appreciation of Wallace by, i. 4; at Darwin-Wallace Jubilee, 122; paper on geographical distribution of plants by, ii. 90 letters from: on

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

TO PROF. POULTON Broadstone, Wimborne. December 18, 1907. My dear Poulton, The importance of Mendelism to Evolution seems to me to be something of the same kind, but very much less in degree and importance, as Galton's fine discovery of the law of the average share each parent has in the characters of the child one quarter, the four grand-parents each one-sixteenth, and so on. That illuminates the whole problem of heredity, combined with individual diversity, in a way nothing else does. I

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

him to link the heavens and the earth in one common bond of evolution. culminating in the development of moral and spiritual intelligences. Man's Place in the Universe (1903) was in effect a prelude to The World of Life (1910). Wallace saw afterwards that one grew out of the other, as we find him frequently saying with regard to his other books and essays. As with Spiritualism, so with Astronomy, the seed-interest practically lay dormant in his mind for many years; with this difference, however

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

L LAMARCK and Evolution, i. 1, 109, 242 Lambs, instincts of, ii. 54 Land laws, Wallace and, ii. 140 molluscs, Darwin on, i. 131, 132, 287, 292 nationalisation, Wallace and, ii. 141 Society, foundation of, ii. 143 Wallace's, i. 317, ii. 109, 143 shells, i. 132, 133, 262 Tenure Reform Association, Wallace and, ii. 143 Lankester, Sir E. Ray, receives Darwin-Wallace Medal and speaks at Jubilee celebration, i. 121; replies to a Darwin Centenary article in the Times, ii. 89; a signatory to Wallace

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

, Bateson's, ii. 60 1 Materialism of the Present Day, Janet's, i. 170, 172, 173, 175 Maternal impressions, ii. 57 8 Matthew, P., anticipates theory of Natural Selection, i. 116, 142 Maw, Mr., reviews Origin of Species, i. 144 Melastoma, i. 150, 151 Meldola, Prof. Raphael, lecture on Evolution by, i. 123; death of, ii. 35; criticism of Romanes' theory, 36; on importance of divergence, 41 2; President of Entomological Society, 63; reminiscences of Wallace, 226; at Wallace's funeral, 252; and the Abbey

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

America, fauna of, ii. 10 Special creation, i, 189 (note), 190, 192, ii. 23, 185 Species, mutability of, i. 78, 137; law of introduction of, 96, 101 2; extinction of, 98. (See also Selection, natural) Spencer, Herbert, birth of, i. 5; and Evolution, 122, 123; arguments with Huxley on Evolution, 123; sends Darwin a copy of his Essays, 124; suggests survival of the fittest as alternative natural selection, 125, 171; Wallace's relations with, 125; Darwin's approval of survival of the fittest, 174

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F1592.1 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

civilised man. It is the difference between a wild and tame animal. 1 The last words suggest the seed-thought eventually to be enlarged in The Descent of Man, and there is also perhaps a subtle suggestion of the points in which Wallace differed from Darwin when the time came for them to discuss this important section of the theory of Evolution. It needed, however, the further eight years spent by Wallace in the Malay Archipelago to bring about a much wider knowledge of nature-science before he

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F1592.1 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

explanatory observations, and then invited Wallace to come forward in order to receive the first Darwin Wallace Medal. In presenting it he said: Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, We rejoice that we are so happy as to have with us to day the survivor of the two great naturalist whose crowning work we are here to commemorate. Your brilliant work in natural history and geography, and as one of the founders of the theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, is universally honoured and has often received public

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F1592.1 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

the establishment of Evolution as a great natural principle or law. 1 In this connection it is especially interesting to note how near Spencer had come to the conception of Natural Selection without grasping its full significance. In an article on a Theory of Population (published in the Westminster Review for April, 1852) he wrote: And here, indeed, without further illustration, it will be seen that premature death, under all its forms and from all its causes, cannot fail to work in the same

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F1592.1 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

Wallace's review, in the April number of the Quarterly, of Lyell's Principles of Geology (tenth edition), and of the sixth edition of the Elements of Geology. Wallace points out that here for the first time Sir C. Lyell gave up his opposition to Evolution; and this leads Wallace to give [page] 24

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F1592.1 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

heresy not as yet altogether convincing, though of course I fully agree with every word and every argument, which goes to prove the evolution or development of man out of a lower form. My only difficulties are as to whether you have accounted for every step of the, development by ascertained laws. Feeling sure that the book will keep up and [page] 25

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the evolution of conscience the reviewer thinks that Mr. Darwin comes much nearer to the 'kernel of the phychological problem' than many of his predecessors. The second article contains a good discussion of the bearing of the book on the question of design, and concludes by finding in it a vindication of Theism more wonderful than that in Paley'a 'Natural Theology.' Life and Letters, iii. 138. [page] 26

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F1592.1 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

course a copy will be sent to you. I shall now try whether I can occupy myself without writing anything more on so difficult a subject as Evolution. I hope you are now comfortably settled in your new house, and have more leisure than you have had for some time. I have looked out in the papers for any notice about the curatorship of the new Museum, but have seen nothing. If anything is decided in your favour, I beg you to inform me. My dear Wallace, very truly yours, C. DARWIN. How grandly the

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F1592.1 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

North and South American faunas, I think I am right. The Edentata, being proved (as I hold) to have been mere temporary migrants into North America in the post-Pliocene epoch, form no part of its Tertiary fauna. Yet in South America they were so enormously developed in the Pliocene epoch that we know, if there is any such thing as Evolution, etc., that strange ancestral forms must have preceded them in Miocene times. Mastodon, on the other hand, represented by one or two species only, appears to

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

before the white man, and the New Zealander vanishes in presence of the English settler. Nature, careless in this stage of evolution about the body, selects for survival those varieties of mankind which excel in mental qualities. Hence it has happened that the physical characteristics of the different races, once fixed in very early prehistoric times, have never greatly varied. They have passed out of the range of Natural Selection because they have become comparatively unimportant in the struggle

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

Lowell Institute, Boston, U.S.A., to deliver a course of lectures in the autumn and winter of 1886, Wallace decided upon a series which would embody those theories of evolution with which he was most familiar, with a special one on The Darwinian Theory illustrated by a set of original diagrams on variation. These lectures eventually became merged into the well-known book entitled Darwinism. 1 My Life, ii 99 101. [page] 1

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

difficult and inadequate as mine does to him. A. R. W. Wallace was in frequent correspondence with Professor Raphael Meldola, the eminent chemist, a friend both of Darwin and of Wallace, a student of Evolution, and a stout defender of Darwinism. I received from him much help and advice in connection with this work, and had he lived until its completion he died, suddenly, in 1914 my indebtedness to him would have been even greater. The following letter to Meldola refers to a suggestion that the white

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

by Romanes had no real weight because the possibility of so called co adaptations being developed successively in the order of evolution had not been reckoned with. There was no real divergence between Wallace and Prof. Meldola on this matter when they subsequently discussed it. The correspondence is in Nature, xliii. 557, and subsequently. See also Darwin and After Darwin, by Romanes, 1895, ii. 68. TO PROF. MELDOLA Parkstone, Dorset. April 25, 1891. My dear Meldola, You have now put your foot

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

maintained, but, as he also maintained, it is not absolutely essential to evolution. Romanes argues as if free intercrossing meant that none would pair like with like! I hope you will have another slap at him, and withdraw or explain that unlucky infinity to one, which is Romanes' sheet anchor. Yours very truly, ALFRED R. WALLACE TO PROF. POULTON Parkstone, Dorset. June 16, 1892. My dear Mr. Poulton, Many thanks for sending me Weismann's additional Essays,1 which I look forward to reading with much

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

HERBERT SPENCER TO A. R. WALLACE Queen's Hotel, Cliftonville, Margate. Aug. 19, 1894. Dear Mr. Wallace, I cannot at all agree with you respecting the relative importance of the work you are doing and that which I wanted you to do. Various articles in the papers show that Lord Salisbury's argument is received with triumph, and, unless it is disposed of, it will lead to a public reaction against the doctrine of evolution at large, a far more serious evil than any error which you propose to