Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 332 pages of information about Alfred Russel Wallace.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 332 pages of information about Alfred Russel Wallace.

Transmutation of species, i. 123, ii. 23

“Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro,” Wallace’s, i, 30, 35

Trees, tropical, i. 86

Trimen, Mr., paper on mimetic butterflies by, i. 200, 201

Trimorphism in plants, i. 161, 202, 220

Tropical forests, Darwin’s description of, i. 31-2;
  denizens of, 31

“——­ Nature,” Wallace’s, ii. 11

Turner, Dr., orchids of, ii. 114

——­ Mr. H.H., signs petition for national memorial of Wallace, ii. 253

Tylor, E.B., “Early History of Mankind,” i. 164;
  Wallace on, 165;
  “Anthropology,” ii. 65

Tyndall, John, birth of, i. 5;
  and psychical research, ii. 198

U

Uaupes, Indians of, i. 31;
  exploration of, i. 29

Unfit, segregation of, ii. 160-1, 246

United States, Wallace’s lecturing tour in, ii. 14

“Unparalleled Discoveries of Mr. T.J.J.  See, Account of,” ii. 178

Utricularia, i. 284-5

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Vaccination, Wallace and, ii. 149, 202, 237, 240-1;
  Rev. H. Price Hughes on, 158;
  Frederic Myers and, 206

“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, 199, 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 Nature,” Grant Allen’s, ii. 46

Vogt, Prof., i. 221

Volcanic eruptions and migration, Lyell’s theory of, ii. 19

“Voyage of the Beagle,” Darwin’s, i. 31, 32, 34, ii. 2

“——­ up the Amazon,” Edwards’s, i. 25

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Waddell’s “Lhasa,” ii. 82

Waddington, Mr. Samuel, ii. 77

Wages, question of, ii. 156

Waimate (N.Z.), missionary settlement at, i. 37

Wallace, Alfred Russel: 
  co-discoverer of Natural Selection, i. 1, 2, 105, 106, 107, 111, 112,
    113, 136, 139, 153, 158, ii. 39-40;
  early years, i. 5-44;
  nervousness, 7, 14, 35, ii. 134;
  his father, i. 8;
  his mother, 8, 9, 30;
  first experiments, 9, 19-20;
  schooldays, 11;
  geographical studies, 11;
  love of reading, 13;
  pupil teacher at Hertford Grammar School, 14;
  interest in Socialism, 15, 27, ii. 151 et seq., 181;
  land-surveying, i. 15, 17, 19, ii. 139, 182;
  astronomical studies and writings, i.

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