Produced by Digital & Multimedia Center, Michigan State University Libraries., Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Josephine Paolucci, Joshua Hutchinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: Footnotes moved to end of book] ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE LETTERS AND REMINISCENCES [Illustration: A.R. WALLACE (1913)] Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences By James Marchant _With Two Photogravures and Eight Half-tone Plates_ IN TWO VOLUMES Volume II CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1916 CONTENTS OF VOLUME II PART III I. WALLACE'S WORKS ON BIOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION II. CORRESPONDENCE ON BIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (1864-98) III. CORRESPONDENCE ON BIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (1894-1913) PART IV HOME LIFE PART V SOCIAL AND POLITICAL VIEWS PART VI SOME FURTHER PROBLEMS I. ASTRONOMY II. SPIRITUALISM PART VII CHARACTERISTICS APPENDIX: LISTS OF WALLACE'S WRITINGS INDEX LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME II A.R. WALLACE (1913) _Photogravure Frontispiece_ MRS. A.R. WALLACE (ABOUT 1895) THE STUDY AT "OLD ORCHARD" A.R. WALLACE ADMIRING EREMURUS ROBUSTUS (ABOUT 1905) GRAVE OF ALFRED RUSSEL AND ANNIE WALLACE WALLACE AND DARWIN MEDALLIONS IN THE NORTH AISLE OF THE CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences PART III I.--Wallace's Works on Biology and Geographical Distribution "I have long recognised how much clearer and deeper your insight into matters is than mine." "I sometimes marvel how truth progresses, so difficult is it for one man to convince another, unless his mind is vacant." "I grieve to differ from you, and it actually terrifies me, and makes me constantly distrust myself. I fear we shall never quite understand each other." --DARWIN TO WALLACE. During the period covered by the reception, exposition, and gradual acceptance of the theory of Natural Selection, both Wallace and Darwin were much occupied with closely allied scientific work. The publication in 1859 of the "Origin of Species"[1] marked a distinct period in the course of Darwin's scientific labours; his previous publications had, in a measure, prepared the way for this, and those which immediately followed were branches growing out from the main line of thought and argument contained in the "Origin," an overflow of the "mass of facts" patiently gathered during the preceding years. With Wallace, the end of the first period of his literary work was completed by the publication of his two large volumes on "The Geographical Distribution of Animals," towards which all his previous thought and writings had tended, and from which, again, came other valuable works leading up to the publication of "Darwinism" (1889).