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.

Lip-expression, efficacy of, ii. 67

Littledale, Dr., reminiscences of Wallace, ii. 132-3, 136

Lock’s “Variation, Heredity, and Evolution,” ii. 84

Lodge, Sir Oliver, reply to Haeckel, ii. 83;
  Romanes lecture, 178-80;
  address at Psychical Research Society, 205;
  and the national memorial to Wallace, 253

Lombok, fauna of, ii. 19, 20

Loennberg, Prof., i. 122

“Looking Backward,” ii. 114

Lophura viellottii, i. 230

Loudon’s “Encyclopedia of Plants,” i. 21, 23, 92

Lowell, Prof.  Percival, “Mars and its Canals,” ii. 172, 175-7

Lubbock, Sir John (see Avebury, Lord)

Lunn, Sir H., meets Wallace, ii. 204

Lyell, Sir C., birth of, i. 5;
  and the Darwin-Wallace joint essay, 71, 109, 111, 113, 118, 119,
    134, 136, 139, ii. 19;
  as Evolutionist, i. 76, 142, 239;
  on extinction of species, 98;
  and Wallace’s “Law regulating Introduction of New Species,” 132;
  defends Darwin, 142;
  on pangenesis, 200;
  and the “Fuel of the Sun,” 263

——­ letters from: 
  on “Origin of Races of Man,” ii. 18;
  on geographical distribution, 19;
  on Wallace’s “Law regulating Introduction of Species,” etc., 21;
  on humming-birds, shells, etc., 23;
  on Wallace’s “Mimicry of Colours,” 25;
  on diversity of human races, 28-9;
  on Wallace’s “Malay Archipelago,” 30;
  on Wallace’s “Geographical Distribution,” 32

Lyell, Sir Leonard, i. 120

Lythrum, trimorphism of, i. 161, 169

M

McAndrew, Mr., on littoral shells of the Azores, ii. 24

Macmahon, Dr. P.A., and the Wallace medallion, ii. 253

Madagascar, i. 290 (note);
  fauna of, 188, 189, 192, 293, 295;
  flora of, 311-13

Madeira, land shells in, i. 132;
  birds in, 138

“Maha Bharata,” Wallace’s appreciation of, ii. 116

Malaria, Wallace on, ii. 241

Malay Archipelago, Wallace’s explorations in, i. 35-42;
  distribution of animals in, 138

“——­ ——­,” Wallace’s, i. 42, 121, 133, 140, 235, 237; ii. 30,
    143, 159, 230, 231;
  translations of, i. 245

“Malayan Papilionidae,” Wallace’s, i. 153, ii. 4, 6, 231

Malthus on “Population,” i. 103, 104, 111, 116, 136, 175, 317

Man, influence of sexual selection on, i. 154, 155, 180, 181, 182, 183;
  geographical distribution of, 156;
  zoological classification of, 157;
  original colour of, ii. 29.

——­, origin of, Darwin’s views of, i. 154-5, 243
  (see also “Descent of Man”)

——­ ——­ Wallace’s views of, i. 91-2, 152-3, 155 et seq., 221,
    240, 243, 250, 256, ii. 31

“Man’s Place in the Universe,” ii. 102, 120, 167, 170 et seq., 178

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