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DCP-LETT-12791

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 Nov 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 292–3); Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Wallace Papers WP/6/4/1)
Summary:

High praise for Island life; ARW’s "best book". Encloses notes of comments and criticism. Hooker pleased by dedication.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12803

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12835

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 106: B149
Summary:

Thanks for book [Movement in plants].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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