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DCP-LETT-7889

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8429

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 July [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On ARW’s "crushing" review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of C. R. Bree’s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr Darwin.

Comments on other reviews and exchanges.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8488

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[2 Sept 1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Huxley’s report of Bastian’s having watched the development of the scale of Sphagnum. The importance of studies of possible causes of heterogenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8566

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Remarks about an enclosed specimen,

and extract of letter from W. A. L. Marshall [8560].

ARW’s good review of J. C. Houzeau de Lehaie [Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux, in Nature 6 (1872): 469–71].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8581A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3)
Summary:

Requests the address of F. F. Geach so that he may send him his book [Expression].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8735

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s criticisms in his review [of Expression, Q. J. Sci. n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Further discussion of ARW’s help on new [2d] edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10531

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 June 1876
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s "grand and memorable work" [Geographical distribution (1876)]. Most interesting part to CD is ARW’s "protest against sinking imaginary continents".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10538

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 June 1876
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Further detailed comments on Geographical distribution.

Base treatment [of George Darwin] by Mivart in Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 June 1876
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Has finished Geographical distribution; sends his comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11121

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 Aug 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Response to Wallace’s article ["The colours of animals and plants", Macmillan’s Mag. (Sept 1877)] on sexual colours and "voluntary" sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11127

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Further discussion of evidence for sexual selection. Prefers "conscious" to "voluntary" action. Distinguishes features that serve as charms and those that serve as challenges.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Sept 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Supports Epping Forest appointment.

Continues work on vegetable physiology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12401

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 286–8)
Summary:

Admiration of ARW’s ["The origin of species and genera", Nineteenth Century (Jan 1880)]. Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches".

Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment.

Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12968

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12985

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12997

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13243

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 July 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Will order Progress and poverty. Comments on ARW’s political interests and his own absorption in W. Graham’s The creed of science.

His sojourn at Ullswater: "life has become very wearisome to me".

Contributor:
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