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DCP-LETT-11067

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1877
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DAR 106: B134–5
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Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.

Further objections to "voluntary" sexual selection. Believes that he can explain all the phenomena of sexual ornaments and colours by laws of development aided by simple natural selection.

Excited by Thomas Belt’s "oceanic glacier river-damming" hypothesis. The last paper, "Glacial period in the Southern Hemisphere" in the Quarterly Journal of Science is particularly fine.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1877
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B134-135
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 275
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 298-299]
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