Ridley, Mr. H.N., ii. 76
Ripon, Lord, i. 277
Rogers, H.D., Darwin on, i. 141
Romanes, G.J.:
theory of physiological selection, i.
218, ii. 36;
Meldola’s criticism of, 36, 49-50;
Wallace’s criticism of, 63 et
seq.;
his accusation against Wallace, 235-7
“Root Principles,” Child’s, ii. 83
Rothschild, the Hon. Lionel (Lord), Wallace’s
admiration of his
butterflies, ii. 88, 129
Royal Geographical Society, and exploration of Uaupes River, i. 29
—— Institute, the, Wallace’s lecture at, ii. 87, 127, 222
Rudimentary organs, i. 100
Russell, Mr. Alfred, letter to, ii. 158
Russia, Czar of, manifesto of, ii. 158
—— Wallace on, ii. 161
Ruetimeyer, researches on mammals in Switzerland by, i. 251
Ryle, Bishop, and the medallion of Wallace, 254;
sermon at its unveiling, 254-5
S
Sadong River, Wallace’s exploration of, i. 93
Salisbury, Bishop of, at funeral of Wallace, ii. 252
—— Marquis of, view of Natural Selection,
ii. 59, 60;
translation of his address, 65
Santiago, Darwin at, i. 34
Sarawak, Wallace in, i. 28, 38-40, 93, 106
Scandinavia, distribution of plants in, i. 293
Schaffhausen, Dr., almost anticipates Natural Selection, i. 142
“Scientific Aspect of the Supernatural,” Wallace’s, ii. 186
“—— Demonstration of a Future Life,” Hudson’s, ii. 203
Sclater, P.H., on Wallace’s “Malay Archipelago,”
i. 139-140;
and Lemuria, 290 (note);
division of earth into zoological regions,
ii. 8;
distrust of Gould, 24
Scott, Dr. Dukinfield H., speech at presentation of
Darwin-Wallace Medals,
i. 110-112;
at Wallace’s funeral, ii. 252;
and the Wallace memorial in Westminster
Abbey, 254
Scott’s “Antarctic Voyage,” ii. 82
Sedgwick, Prof., and Darwin, i. 17, 18;
attacks Darwin at Cambridge Philosophical
Society, 142
See, T.J.J., ii. 179-80
Seeman, Berthold, i. 199, 201, 210, 211
Segregation of the unfit, Wallace on, ii. 160-1, 246
Selection, domestic, i. 130, 134, 136, 160, 161, 167,
181, 183,
186, 189 (note), 192, 208,
215, 226, 228, 231, 257, 299
—— 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 of, 116, 142, 176;
Spencer’s alternative term for,
125, 171;
Lord Salisbury’s conception of,
ii. 59, 60, 65;
Neo-Lamarckians and, 64
—— physiological, Romanes’
theory of, i. 218, ii. 36, 49-50, 63
et seq., 235-7
—— sexual, i. 157, 159, 177, 179,
182, 185-6, 194, 199, 203, 204, 212
et seq., 216-17, 220,
224-5, 227 et seq., 256, 261,
298, 299