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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 struggle for existence on the evolution of species. You have all read Francis Darwin's fascinating work as editor of his father's Life and Letters, where you will find (Vol. II., p. 116) a letter addressed, on the 18th of June, 1858, to Sir Charles Lyell by Mr. Darwin, who states that he had on that day received a communication from Mr. Wallace written from the Celebes Islands requesting that it might be sent to him (Sir Charles). In a covering letter Mr. Darwin pointed out that 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

[Australian] bird in which the female has long-tailed plumes and which consequently builds a different nest from all her allies.2 With respect 1 The letter to which this is a reply is missing. It evidently refers to Wallace's belief in the paramount importance of protection in the evolution of colour. See also Darwin's letter of February 26, 1867. 2 Menura superba. See The Descent of Man (1901), p 687 Rhynch a, mentioned on p. 184, is discussed in the Descent, p. 727. The female is more brightly

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

a short account of the views set forth in the Origin of Species. In this article Wallace makes a definite statement as to his views on the evolution of man, which were opposed to those of Darwin. He upholds the view that the brain of man, as well as the organs of speech, the hand and the external form, could not have been evolved by Natural Selection (the child he is supposed to murder ). At p. 391 he writes: In the brain of the lowest savages and, as far us we know, of the prehistoric races

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

carried him through a long life. Once, when he was talking about the gaps in the evolution of life, viz. between the inorganic and organic, between vegetable and animal, and between animal and man, I asked, ‘Why postulate a beginning at all? We are satisfied with illimitability at one end, why not at the other?' ‘For the simple reason,' he said, ‘that the mind cannot comprehend anything that has never had a beginning.' What attracted me to him most, I think, was his remarkable simplicity of language

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

showed that Socialism to him implied the upward evolution of humanity. It was because of the degradation of men involved that he objected to letting individuals grab the public property earth, air and water. Monopolies, he thought, should at once revert to the public, and we had an argument which showed that he had no objection to even artificial monopolies if they were public property. He defended the old Dutch Government monopolies of spices, and declared them better than to-day's free trade

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

Dundee he went to Kenmore, that he might ascend Ben Lawers in search of some rare ferns. In 1872 I saw him, after meeting Thomas Carlyle and Dean Stanley at Linlathen, when Darwin's theory was much discussed, and when our genial host Mr. Erskine talked so dispassionately but decidedly against evolution as explanatory of the rise of what was new. A little later in the same year Matthew Arnold discussed the same subject with some friends at the Athen um Club, defending the chief aim of Darwin's

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

writings and position of Darwin and Wallace and the theory of Natural Selection as an adequate explanation of organic evolution. Age did not seem to weaken his amazing fertility of creative thought, nor to render him less susceptible to the claims of humanity, which he faced with a noble courage. In nobility of character and in magnitude, variety and richness of mind he was amongst the foremost scientific men of the Victorian Age, and with his death that great period, which was marked by wide

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

Mesmerism and Spiritualism, etc. Sept. and Oct. 1877 Macmillan's Mag. The Colours of Animals and Plants Nov. 1877 Fraser's Mag. The Curiosities of Credulity Dec. 1877 Fortnightly Rev. Humming-Birds Dec. 1877 Athen um Correspondence with W. B. Carpenter on Spiritualism Jan. 1878 Athen um Nov. 1878 Fortnightly Rev. Epping Forest, and How to Deal with it Feb. 1879 Contemp. Rev. New Guinea and its Inhabitants April 1879 Academy Review of Haeckel's Evolution of Man July 1879 Nineteenth Cent. Reciprocity

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

Review of F. W. Hayes' Great Revolution of 1905 Sept. 1894 Natural Sci. The Rev. G. Henslow on Natural Selection * 1894 Smithsonian Rep. Method of Organic Evolution Oct. 1894 Nineteenth Cent. A Counsel of Perfection for Sabbatarians * [page] 26

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

Advance in Science in 1907 Jan. 18 1908 Outlook Letter on Woman Jan. 18 1908 Fortnightly Rev. Evolution and Character June and July 1908 Socialist Rev. The Remedy for Unemployment July 1908 Times Letter on the First Paper on Natural Selection July 1908 Delineator Are the Dead Alive? Aug. 14 1908 Public Opinion Is it Peace or War? A Reply Aug. 1908 Contemp. Rev. Present Position of Darwinism Sept. 1908 New Age Letter on Nationalisation, not Purchase, of Railways Dec. 1908 Contemp. Rev. Darwinism

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

Organisation and Intelligence XIX. 501, 581 1879 Grant Allen's Colour Sense XIX. 582 1879 Did Flowers Exist during the Carboniferous Epoch? XX. 141 1879 Butler's Evolution, Old and New XX. 501 1879 McCook's Agricultural Ants of Texas XX. 625 1879 Reyly to Reviewers of Wallace's Australasia XXI. 562 1880 Reply to Everett on Wallace's Australasia XXII. 141 1880 Two Darwinian Essays XXIII. 124, 217, 266 1880 Geological Climates XXIII. 152, 175 1880 New Guinea XXIII. 169 1880 Climates of Vancouver

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

shells, i. 133 , John, list of humming-birds, ii. 23; Sclater's distrust of, 24 Graham's Creed of Science, i. 318 Grant, Dr., article on Flustra, i. 16; advocacy of Evolution by, 122 Granville, Lord, ii. 67 Gray, Asa, i. 76, 139; defends Darwin, 142 Great Exhibition of 1862, i. 79 Greenell, Mary Ann (Mrs. T. V. Wallace), i. 9 Growth, economy of, ii. 53 Gurney, Edmund, and telepathy, ii. 200 [page] 27

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

and parrots, i. 166 (note), 167 Monopoly and free trade, Wallace on, ii. 152 More Letters, i. 127, 195, 288 (note), 312 (note) Morgan, Prof. Lloyd, Wallace on, ii. 67, 68 T. H., Evolution and Adaptation, ii. 79 Morley, Mr. John (Lord), correspondence with, ii. 159 Morton, Dr., on American race problem, ii. 28 Moths, Jenner Weir's observations on, i. 179 Mott, Mr., on Haeckel, i. 298; on progression of races, ii. 86 Mould, formation of, by agency of earthworms, i. 319 Mount Ophir (Malay), i. 51

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A262 Book contribution: Darwin, Francis. 1916. Memoir of Sir George Darwin. In Scientific Papers by Sir George Howard Darwin. Cambridge vol. 5: ix-xxxiii. Text

costume were recorded and discussed from the standpoint of evolution. In 1873 he wrote On beneficial restriction to liberty of marriage1, a eugenic article for which he was attacked with gross unfairness and bitterness by the late St George Mivart. He was defended by Huxley, and Charles Darwin formally ceased all intercourse with Mivart. We find mention of a Globe Paper for the British Association in 1873. And in the following year he read a contribution on Probable Error to the Mathematical

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A262 Book contribution: Darwin, Francis. 1916. Memoir of Sir George Darwin. In Scientific Papers by Sir George Howard Darwin. Cambridge vol. 5: ix-xxxiii. Text

of which we read in Mr Clark's History. I think George must have had pleasure in the obvious development of the tennis court from some primaeval court-yard in which the pent-house was the roof of a shed, and the grille a real window or half-door. To one brought up on evolution there is also a satisfaction about the French terminology which survives in e.g. the Tambour and the Dedans. George put much thought into acquiring a correct style of play—for in tennis there is a religion of attitude

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

Variation, Heredity, and Evolution, Lock's, ii. 84 of birds, i. 162 3 Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication, Darwin's, i. 112, 189, 195, 197, 139, ii. 2 Variety, Wallace's differentiation of, from species, i. 91 2, 96, 97, 101, 115, 167 (note), 169, 173, 205, 210, 234, ii. 21, 62, 63, 70 Varley, C. F., i. 244 Vegetarianism, Wallace on, ii. 158 Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, i. 91, 92 (note) Victoria, Queen, approves of pension to Wallace, i. 315 Vignettes from

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A300 Book: Darwin, Francis. 1917. Rustic sounds and other studies in literature and natural history. London: John Murray. [Darwin family recollections only] Text Image

Magazine1 an entertaining article, Development in Dress, where the survivals in modern costume were recorded and discussed from the standpoint of evolution. In 1873 he wrote On beneficial restriction to liberty of marriage, 2 a eugenic article for which he was attacked with gross unfairness and bitterness by the late St. George Mivart. He was defended by Huxley; and Charles Darwin formally ceased all intercourse with Mivart. We find mention of a Globe Paper for the British Association in 1873. And

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A2094b Book: Hooker, J. D. 1918. [Recollections of Darwin]. In L. Huxley ed., Life and letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. London: John Murray, vol. 2. Text

The Camp, Sunningdale: May 2, 1888, Dear Huxley,—The evolution of Darwin is excellent, it makes quite a Natural Order of him. You will find an X on page 1 in reference to Darwin's father. I understood from D. that his father had not only scientific proclivities, but ambition, and that he presented to the R.S. a communication on some optical subject, which, being rejected, disgusted him, and led to his stifling his own early scientific tendencies and scoffing at those of others. If worth

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A2094b Book: Hooker, J. D. 1918. [Recollections of Darwin]. In L. Huxley ed., Life and letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. London: John Murray, vol. 2. Text

if he had not consciously taken advantage of it with his eyes open to its value in weighing all evidence pro and con evolution. If you will let me make a suggestion, it is that you alter the expression 'could be considered well spent,' for eight years so spent by any other man would establish his reputation for all time, and whether as a discipline to your father, or for its results, I cannot conceive his spending it better, at that period of his career especially. Probably it all came out in

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A2094b Book: Hooker, J. D. 1918. [Recollections of Darwin]. In L. Huxley ed., Life and letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. London: John Murray, vol. 2. Text

dressing is not inopportune. It is abominable that a Review of such standing should seek out ignorant and incompetent and even prejudiced and hostile reviewers to write in such cases. I quite feel with you that it is a pity that the 'Life' of one so far above all fierceness of disposition should have to treat of matters requiring such stern and hot handling. But the Q. R. was, from its influence and position, the head and front of the offending, and if the history of Evolution has to be dealt with