From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 180
Summary:
Explains delay in printing proofs [of Movement in plants?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 November 1880
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B145-148
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 294-296
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 308-311]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project