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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
those parts which attempted to justify the title by propounding a new theory of evolution were either quite unsound in reasoning or wholly unintelligble. When the second application came, I told the editor that I had already agreed to write one, but could easily write another from a different point of view. This was accepted, and as the reviews were unsigned, it was not difficult to make them appear to be by distinct writers. In the first (which appeared in The Nation, February 10, 1887) I
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
land would be included within the city limits, and would sell for a high price, in which case he would leave the rest as a zoological experimental station to the public. I made some suggestions to him as to experiments in regard to instinct, heredity, and evolution, which were much needed, and he said he would take them in hand when his affairs were more settled. Sioux City had recently become a centre for agricultural produce, and had a large pork-curing establishment; and, as in many other
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
, even in this comparatively English part of Canada. Mr. Iles is a literary man as well as a hotel manager. He lent me an article of his on Mathematics and Evolution, in which he made use of the theory of permutations and combinations to illustrate Spencer's principle of multiplication of effects, applied especially to sociology an ingenious and well-written paper. He is also a student of Emerson and Darwin, and he entertained Butler, the author of Erewhon, a few years before, and gave me a copy
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
February-March), which was chiefly devoted to showing that the views of Mr. Francis Galton, and of Mr. Bateson in his book on Discontinuous Variations, are erroneous; and that such variations, which are usually termed sports, and in extreme cases monstrosities, do not indicate the method of evolution. Darwin gave special attention to this view, and finally rejected it; and I think I have shown why it is not effective in nature. It is a view which is continually cropping up as if it were a new
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
War and the Remedies, written for L'Humanit Nouvelle. I also wrote letters to the Daily Chronicle on America, Cuba, and the Philippines; and a protest against the Transvaal War in the Manchester Guardian. In the year 1900 I wrote an article for the New York Journal on Social Evolution in the Twentieth Century An Anticipation, for which I received a very complimentary letter from the editor. During the next two years I was engaged in preparing new editions of my books on Darwinism and Island Life
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
improvement from the existing governments of the great civilized nations, supported and controlled as they are by the ever-increasing power of vast military and official organizations. These organizations are a permanent menace to liberty, to national morality, and to all real progress towards a rational social evolution. It is these which have given us during the first years of this new century examples of national hypocrisy and crimes against liberty and humanity to say nothing of Christianity almost
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
argument, founded on the theory of organic evolution, which I had not time to introduce into the first edition. This argument is itself so powerful that, when compounded with the arguments founded on astronomical, physical, and physiological phenomena, it renders the improbability of there having been two independent developments of organic life culminating in man, so great as to be absolutely inconceivable. The success of this volume, and the entirely new circle of readers it brought me, caused my
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
a chapter. I can only say here that the writer has not a sufficient grasp of the elementary laws of distribution to enable him to grapple with the subject. One example of this will suffice. He says, Plants are not, as a fact, carried far by wind, Corsican, Sardinian, and Sicilian plants not occurring in Italy. No one who understands the first principles of evolution by natural selection could have made such a statement. And as to his alleged fact, I have given overwhelming evidence against it
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
, ii. 406 Cope, Professor, ii. 110; The Origin of the Fittest, by, ii. 132, 133; Primary Factors of Evolution, by, ii. 215 Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, ii. 124 Corelli, Miss Marie, A. R. Wallace introduced to, ii. 259 Corwen, North Wales, A. R. Wallace and Mr. Mitten stay at, ii. 401, 402, 403 Cosmos, by Humboldt, i. 255 Cosmos Club, Washington, reception at, ii. 119 [page] 42
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
Letter-Writer, A. R. Wallace's comments on, ii. 135 Evolution Old and New, by Samuel Butler, ii. 83; A. R. Wallace's letter on, ii. 84 Ewington and Chilcot, Messrs., solicitors, i. 6 Exeter, meeting of the British Association at, ii. 46 Exeter Change for the British Lions, parody on the British Association, ii. 46 Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, The, by Darwin, ii. 1, 11 F Faerie Queene, Spenser's, read by A. R. Wallace, i. 75 Fair Heaven, The, by Samuel Butler, ii. 83 Fairchild
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
English and American Flowers, ii. 143; Human Selection, ii. 209, 267; The Method of Organic Evolution, ii. 212, 213; The Expressiveness of Speech, ii. 213; Man's Place in the Universe, ii. 232; A Defence of Modern Spiritualism, ii. 295 Fortune, Mr., plant-collector, ii. 61 Forty-five Years of Registration Statistics, proving Vaccination to be both Useless and Dangerous, pamphlet by A. R. Wallace, ii. 352 Foster, Joseph, shareholder in the New Lanark Mills, i. 98 Foxwell, Professor, his
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
. Morgan, friend of Dr. Purland, ii. 80 Kay, Dr., of Theological College in Calcutta, ii. 52 K Islands, i. 369, 370 Keeler, Mr. P. L. O. A., medium, manifestations of, ii. 342 Keller, Helen, i. 182 Kenilworth Castle, excursion to, i. 238 Kennan, Mr., address on Siberia, ii. 119 Kent's Cavern, ii. 49 Kenworthy, J. C, as socialist, ii. 272 Kerner's observations on plants, ii. 65 Keulemans, illustrations by, i. 405 Kidd, Mr. Benjamin, on equality of opportunity, i. 175; Social Evolution by, ii. 212
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
, ii. 83; Huxley quoted, ii. 103; A. R. Wallace writes for, ii. 209; reviews, Animal Life and Intelligence in, ii. 210; reviews, The Naturalist in La Plata in, ii. 210; reviews and letter on Cause of the Ice Age, ii. 215; controversy on A Speculation regarding the Senses, ii. 309; discussion on homing instinct of dogs, ii. 391, 392 Nature's Method in the Evolution of Life, reviewed by A. R. Wallace, ii. 212 Neale, Miss Florence, of Penarth, i. 167, 246 Neath, the Wallaces live at, i. 14, 15; W
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
News from Nowhere, by William Morris, ii. 267 Newton, Dr., ii. 308 Newton, Professor Alfred, Dictionary of Birds by, ii. 26, 34; A. R. Wallace the guest of, at Cambridge, ii. 45; urges A. R. Wallace to write a book on the geographical distribution of animals, ii. 94, 211 Newtown, in Montgomeryshire, birthplace of Robert Owen, i. 91, 148 New York, A. R. Wallace visits, ii. 107, 108, 113 New York Journal, The, A. R. Wallace writes on Social Evolution for, ii. 220 New Zealand, animals of, i. 421
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
Parkstone, ii. 207; discussion on How to Model the Earth, ii. 214 Red Lions, A. R. Wallace admitted to the fraternity of, ii. 48 Rees, David, W. and A. R. Wallace lodge with, i. 179, 193, 194; A. R. Wallace revisits, i. 253 Reeve, Mr. Lovel, Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, published by, i. 321 Regan, Mr. C. Tate, of the British Museum, i. 286 Reichenbach, Baron, Professor Tyndall's comments on, ii. 280 Reid, Dr. G. Archdall, Present Evolution of Man, ii. 215 Reid, Mayne, Soda springs mentioned
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F668    Book:     Darwin, C. R. [1907]. L'origine des espèces: au moyen de la sélection naturelle ou la lutte pour l'éxistence dans la nature. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: Schleicher Frères.   Text   PDF
ou Ovaire (chez les plantes). — La partie inférieure du pistil ou de l'organe femelle de la plante, contenant les ovules ou jeunes semences ; par la croissance et après que les autres organes de la fleur sont tombés, l'ovaire se transforme généralement en fruit. Ovigère. — Portant l'œuf. Ovules (des plantes). — Les semences dans leur première évolution. Pachydermes. — Un groupe de mammifères, ainsi appelés à cause de leur peau épaisse, comprenant l'éléphant, le rhinocéros, l'hippopotame, etc
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F668    Book:     Darwin, C. R. [1907]. L'origine des espèces: au moyen de la sélection naturelle ou la lutte pour l'éxistence dans la nature. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: Schleicher Frères.   Text   PDF
quelques cas frappants chez les saules hybrides. Il est bon de rappeler ici que, dans les cas de parthénogenèse, les embryons des œufs de vers à soie qui n'ont pas été fécondés périssent après avoir, comme les embryons résultant d'un croisement entre deux espèces distinctes, parcouru les premières phases de leur évolution. Tant que j'ignorais ces faits, je n'étais pas disposé à croire à la fréquence de la mort précoce des embryons hybrides ; car ceux-ci, une fois nés, font généralement preuve de
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A281    Pamphlet:     1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society.   Text   PDF
. His advocacy of the doctrine of Evolution in his Monograph of the Radiolaria (1862), first brought it before the attention of German men of Science; his enthusiastic and gallant advocacy ever since has chiefly contributed to its success in that country. Mr. Darwin, in 1873, wrote to Prof. Haeckel, You will do a wonderful amount of good in spreading the doctrine of Evolution, supporting it as you do, by so many original observations. A brilliant writer and investigator, author of a number of
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A281    Pamphlet:     1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society.   Text   PDF
evolution than is yet realised. Your conception of homoplastic modification, leading to similar organisation in distinct lines of descent, has proved no less fertile, and the importance which you have attached to the study of Bionomics, to use your own term, anticipated the great development which the investigation of the conditions of life has since shown, under Prof. Warming's name of Ecology. Your more popular works have spread the knowledge of Evolution beyond the limits of scientific circles; my
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A281    Pamphlet:     1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society.   Text   PDF
doctrine of evolution as expounded by Lamarck and by Robert Chambers. They had (he pointed out) failed to discover any mechanical conditions from the operation of which organic evolution must ensue. But the Darwin-Wallace principle of survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence satisfied Huxley's requirement. He became the convinced advocate of the new doctrine, though I think it is true that he clung to a little heresy of his own as to the occurrence of evolution by saltatory
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