From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 106: B145–8
Summary:
Response to CD’s notes [on Island life]:
1. On relation of paucity of fossils to coldness of water;
2. Cessation of the glacial period;
3. Rate of deposit and geological time;
4. The importance of preoccupation (by plants) in relation to plants arriving later.
Charge of speculative explanations is just.
Defends plausibility of migration of plants from mountain to mountain.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
