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.
20, ii. 167 et seq.;
  early interest in zoology and geology, i. 20;
  first telescope, 20, ii. 168;
  love of botany, i. 20, 21, ii. 106;
  his herbarium, i. 22;
  as watchmaker, 23;
  interest in phrenology and mesmerism, 24, ii. 181, 182;
  studies beetles and butterflies, i. 24, 114;
  school teacher at Leicester, 24;
  voyage to Amazon, 26 et seq.;
  explores Uaupes River, 29;
  fire at sea and loss of collections, 29, 30;
  first meeting with Darwin, 35, 105, ii. 62;
  meets Huxley, i. 35;
  visits Switzerland, 35, ii. 204;
  visits Singapore, i. 36;
  on missionaries, 37-8, 47, 48, 50, 62-3;
  in Sarawak, 38-40;
  beetle and butterfly collecting, i. 38, 41-2, 114, 237, ii. 4-5;
  ill-health of, i. 40, 79;
  enthusiasm as naturalist and collector, 40-2, 115;
  journey in a “prau,” 42;
  early letters, etc., 45-88;
  Darwin-Wallace joint paper read before Linnean Society, 71, 89, 109,
    118, 122;
  Darwin’s appreciation of his magnanimity, 71, 106, 118, 134, 137, 139,
    141, 153, 164, 242, 252, 287, 304;
  attack of intermittent fever, 107, 108;
  jubilee of Darwin-Wallace essay and his speech, 110 et seq;
  relations with Spencer, 125;
  Presidential Address to Entomological Society, 126;
  reads proofs of Spencer’s “principles of Sociology,” 126;
  correspondence with Darwin, 127-320;
  inscription on envelope containing Darwin’s first eight letters, 128;
  sends Darwin a honeycomb, 143;
  reads Spencer’s works, 147, 150;
  “expose” of Rev. S. Haughton’s “Bee’s Cell,” 148;
  his opinion of Agassiz, 149;
  and the origin of man, 152, 153, 154, 155 et seq., 240;
  and Darwin’s paper on climbing plants, 162;
  on a crested blackbird, 163;
  on the Reader, 165;
  on mimicry, 167 (note), 168, 176, 179;
  approves of term “survival of the fittest,” 171;
  birth of a son, 188;
  later views on Natural Selection, 217, 218;
  dedicates “Malayan Travels” to Darwin, 232;
  birth of a daughter, 234;
  visits Wales, 247;
  reviews “Descent of Man,” 260;
  on Chauncey Wright and Mivart, 265-7;
  Bethnal Green Museum directorship, 277;
  and second edition of “Descent of Man,” 281 (note), 282, 283;
  social and political views, 283, 317, 319, ii. 139-65, 245-7;
  at Dorking, i. 294, 297, ii. 106;
  and the superintendency of Epping Forest, i. 302, 303, 304, 306, ii. 106;
  writes a work on Geography, i. 304, ii. 14;
  recommended for a Civil List pension, i. 313-16;
  works on Biology, etc., ii. 3 et seq.;
  articles for “Encyclopaedia Britannica,” 11;
  lectures at Boston, U.S.A., 15;
  correspondence on biology, geographical distribution, etc., 18-102;
  on theory of flight, i. 145, ii. 25-8;
  and Mivart’s “Genesis of Species,” 34;
  friendship with Meldola, 35;
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