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WCP4413

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
28 May 1900
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 66
Summary:

Cannot sign Poulton's memorial because it makes several statements of opinion with which ARW does not agree.

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WCP4414

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
29 July 1900
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 67
Summary:

Thanks Poulton for corrections he made.

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WCP4415

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
23 February 1903
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 68
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 68
Summary:

About his date of birth and new book "a kind of pot-boiler".

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WCP4416

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
31 May 1903
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 69
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 69
Summary:

About butterflies and house in Broadstone. Hard at work on "Astronomo-Biologoico-Physico book".

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WCP4417

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
20 July 1903
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 70
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 70
Summary:

ARW seeks advice on behalf of young insect collector who wishes to travel abroad. Discusses possible regions - asks Poulton's opinion.

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WCP4418

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
24 July 1903
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 71
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 71
Summary:

About arrangements for Poulton's visit. Thanks for information for young collector - discusses matter further.

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WCP4419

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
27 November 1903
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 72
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 72
Summary:

About struggle for existence. Fred Birch.

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WCP4420

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
3 December 1903
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 73
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 73
Summary:

Comments on Poulton's work. Mentions special collection illustrating mimicry. About exchanging books and Fred Birch.

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WCP4421

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
7 December 1903
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 74
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 74
Summary:

About advance of £5 from Poulton to Birch. Sending books to Poulton. Papers for travelling naturalist.

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WCP4422

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
10 December 1903
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 75
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 75
Summary:

Sending photos of himself, and butterfly papers. Aru Islands and wak-wak birds.

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WCP4423

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
13 December 1903
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 76
Summary:

Inscription on book and photo, not wanting to blot the photograph.

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WCP4424

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
28 February 1904
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 77
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 77
Summary:

About Poulton's address, Darwin, Darwinism and Max Müller. Discusses ideas regarding fertility, variation and sexual selection.

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WCP4425

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
5 August 1904
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 78
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 79]
Summary:

About theory of mutation, which Americans are taking up in place of Lamarckism.

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WCP4426

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
3? April 1905
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 79
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 79
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 79]
Summary:

How Poulton has gathered facts proving the non-heredity of acquired characteristics. About collecting. Mentions Birch.

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WCP4427

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
28 September 1906
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 80
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 80
Summary:

About the naturalist Fred Birch, who intends to go on a collecting expedition in the Amazon. Mentions Thayer and Birch's wife Mary. Details progress in his garden.

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WCP4428

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
12 October 1906
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 81
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 81
Summary:

Has received a letter from Mr Kaye about his experiences collecting in British Guiana. Birch should change his arrangements and go to Iquitos.

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WCP4429

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
19 December 1906
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 82
Summary:

Has signed certificate for Dr Dixey. Weather in Dorset.

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WCP4430

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
16 July 1907
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 83
Summary:

Sending a cutting from the Daily News 16/707. Can Poulton get pupils and friends at Oxford who are acquainted with continental opinion to reply to the author of the cutting? Gossip about Birch's travels. Darwinism in America. W. H. Towers on evolution.

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WCP4431

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
27 July 1907
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 84
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 84
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 84]
Summary:

Glad that Poulton's new book on Evolution is nearly completed. Hopes it will do something to expose the fallacies of the "mutationists" and the "mendelians." Lock's book on Variation, Heredity and Evolution. Criticisms of theory of mutation, and comments on mendelism. More about Fred Birch.

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WCP4432

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
10 August 1907
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 85
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 234
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 85
Summary:

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