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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
10 August 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/75
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
2 September 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/76
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 172: 43
Summary:
Asks CD to support his candidacy for Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge. Since he has spent many years travelling, he is not well enough known at the University.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
29 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/56)
Summary:
Declines writing testimonial for AN for the Cambridge Professorship in Zoology. The post requires expertise in comparative anatomy and histology, whereas AN’s work is on habits and colours of birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 172: 45
Summary:
CD need not apologise for not writing a testimonial for him. He knows comparative anatomy, although he has confined his publication to ornithology. Agrees that with a few members of the University a recommendation from CD would be harmful.
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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
9 November 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/77
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
16 November 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/78
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
20 November 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/79
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
6 January 1866
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/80
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
29 June 1866
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/81
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 172: 46
Summary:
Thanks for new edition of Origin [4th ed.].
Has met CD’s son [George] at Trinity College.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
19 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 87
Summary:
Seeks explanation of the case of the Rhynchaea, of which the female is more beautiful than the male, with the young resembling the latter. Wallace has told CD that at Nottingham AN explained this by the male being the incubator.
Does the male black Australian swan, or the black and white S. American swan, differ from the female in colour of plumage?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 22–5
Summary:
Suggests that, in some birds, plumage of males is less colourful than that of females; the reason is that the males perform the duties of incubation [see Descent 2: 204 n.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
23 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 88
Summary:
Thanks for the information about the male plumage. [See 5374.] Will look to the papers in Ibis to which AN has referred him. He finds AN’s theory captivating.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 28–9
Summary:
Male dotterels take care of young and are less brilliantly coloured than females.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
4 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 89
Summary:
Thanks for information about the dotterel.
CD had ascertained by dissection that the female of the carrion-hawk of the Falkland Islands is very much brighter coloured than the male. Has inquired about its nidification. Mentions other instances of female birds that are brighter and more beautiful than the males and suggests causes for this anomaly.
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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 March 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 26-27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
10 March 1867
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/82
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 April 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
29 April 1867
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/83
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project