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.

——­ ——­ ——­ letter to Samuel Waddington, on origin of all living
    things, ii. 77-8

——­ ——­ ——­ letters to Mr. A. Wiltshire: 
  on the Liberal Government, ii. 162;
  on necessity for increased wages, 165

——­ ——­ ——­ letter to an unknown correspondent, on fauna and flora
    of Borneo district, and Dyaks, i. 53

——­ Annie (A.R.  Wallace’s wife), ii. 115, 252

——­ Herbert (A.R.  Wallace’s brother), i. 28, ii. 182, 229

——­ John (A.R.  Wallace’s brother), i. 11, 13, 15

——­ Mary Ann (A.R.  Wallace’s mother), i. 9

——­ Thomas Vere (A.R.  Wallace’s father), i. 8;
  Librarian of Hertford, 13;
  straitened circumstances of, 14, 15

——­ Violet (daughter of A.R.  Wallace), reminiscences of her father,
    ii. 103-38

——­ W.G. (son of A.R.  Wallace), reminiscences of his father, ii. 103-38

“Wallace’s line,” i. 43, ii. 19, 232, 233

War, Wallace’s abhorrence of, ii. 245

Ward, Mr., on muscular fibres of whales, i. 145

Warington, Mr., and “Origin of Species,” i. 191

Webb, Mr. W.L., ii. 179-80

Wedgwood, Josiah, and Darwin, i. 18

Weir, Jenner, on moths, i. 179;
  on plumage of birds, 205;
  Darwin’s appreciation of, 220;
  paper at the Entomological Society, 235

Weismann, Prof.  A., receives Darwin-Wallace Medal, i. 120;
  on colouring of caterpillars, 299;
  “Essays upon Heredity,” ii. 44 et seq., 51-2
  (see also Non-inheritance of acquired characters)

Wells, Dr., and Natural Selection, i. 116, 176

Westminster Abbey, graves and memorials of men of science in, i. 1;
  petition to Dean and Chapter as to medallion to Wallace in, ii. 253;
  unveiling of the medallion, 254

Westwood and theory of flight, i. 145;
  Darwin on, 146-7

Whale, muscular fibres of, i. 145

Wilberforce, Bishop, reviews Darwin’s “Origin of Species,” 144

Williams, Dr., ii. 192

——­ Matthieu, i. 264

Wilson, Mr. D.A., reminiscences of Wallace, ii. 151-2

Wiltshire, Mr. A., letters to, ii. 162,165

Wimborne, Lord, sale of land to Wallace, ii. 119

Wollaston, Dr., reviews “Origin of Species,” i. 142;
  tribute to Wallace, ii. 230

Wollaston’s “Coleoptera Atlantidum,” ii. 22-3

Woman, independence and future of, Wallace’s views on, ii. 149-51, 245

“Wonderful Century,” Wallace’s, ii. 144, 168, 169, 238

“Wonders of the World,” i. 13

Wood, J.G., book on the horse, ii. 113

Woodbury, Mr., researches of, i. 146

“World of Life,” Wallace’s, ii. 8, 94, 167, 172, 176, 178, 182

“Worms, Formation of Vegetable Mould by Action of,” Darwin’s, i. 320

Wright, Chauncey, reviews Mivart’s “Genesis of Species,” i. 264, 265-7

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