Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2Wallace, Alfred Russel
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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Naturalists -- Correspondence; Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Blainville, D., i. 162
Blandford, H.F., i. 290
Blood relationship, Galton on, i. 277
Blyth, E., i. 132
Blytt, Axel, essay on plants of Scandinavia, i. 293
Borneo, Wallace's collections from, i. 61;
cave exploration, 152
---- Company, i. 38, 39, 40
Boston (U.S.A.), Wallace's lectures at, ii. 15
Botany, Darwin's study of, at Cambridge, i. 17;
Wallace's study of, 20, 21, ii. 106
"----, Elements of," Lindley's, i. 21
Brazil, Wallace's explorations in, i. 29
Bree, Dr., i. 271 (note), 272-3
British Museum, original of Wallace letter in, i. 73
Broadstone, funeral of Wallace at, ii. 252
Bronn, H.G., translates "Origin of Species" into German, i. 141
Brooke, Capt., i 52
---- H. Jamyn, ii. 175
---- Sir James, i. 39, 52, 59-60, 152, 238
Bruce-Joy, Mr., portrait-medallion of Wallace, ii. 122, 254
Buckle, Rev. G., article by, on Lyell's "Principles," i. 232
Buckley, Miss (Mrs. Fisher), i. 260, 264, 313, 316, 319, ii. 40, 89, 90;
reviews "Descent of Man," i. 264
Budd, Dr. Richard, ii. 58
Buffon and Evolution, i. 1
Buru, Wallace's collection of birds from, ii. 3
Bustards, i. 146
Butler, Samuel, "Life and Habit," ii. 102
Butterflies, Wallace's study of, i. 24;
of South America, 30;
of Malay Archipelago, 41-2;
protective adaptation of, 140;
variation and distribution of, 149;
mimetic, 167, 168, 176, 178, 189 (note), 200, 213, 217, 224, 254, 300;
sexual selection of, 179, 260 (note);
flight of, ii, 26
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Cambridge, Darwin at, i. 16, 17
---- Philosophical Society, attacks on "Origin of Species" at, i. 142
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, ii. 146
Carbon, deposits of, i. 298
Carlyle, Thomas, ii. 228
Carpenter, Dr., his controversies with Wallace, ii. 195, 198
Carroll, Lewis, Wallace's quotations from, ii. 105
Casuarius, query from Darwin on, i. 239
Caterpillars, colouring of, i. 178, 179, 183, 236, 260, 270, 299
Celebes, i. 138, 237, 289;
geological distribution in, 168
"Cessation of selection," ii. 52
Chambers, Robert, i. 114, 116, 244
Child's "Root Principles," ii. 83
Clairvoyance, ii. 200, 208, 211. (_See also_ Spiritualism)
Claparede, critique of, on Wallace's "Natural Selection," i. 253, 254
Clarke, Prof., attacks Darwin at Cambridge Philosophical Society, i. 142
Clarkson, Thomas, ii. 225
Cleistogamic flowers, i. 298
Climates, geological, Wallace's theory of, i. 306
Climatic conditions, plants and, i. 130
"Climbing Plants, Movements and Habits of," Darwin's, i, 285, ii. 2
Coal, export duties on, Wallace's view of, ii. 250
Cockerell, Sydney C., ii. 161
---- Theo. D.A., ii. 49;
and the Darwin Celebration at Cambridge, 226;
first personal relations with Wallace, 233-5
"Coleoptera Atlantidum," Wollaston's, ii. 22-3
"Colin Clout's Calendar," ii. 46
Coloration, protective, i. 156, 177, 178-9, 181, 183, 184, 185-6,
201, 220, 221, 224 _et seq._, 260, 270, 298, ii. 4, 11,
85. (_See also_ Protection, Mimicry)
Colour-adaptability, ii. 56
Confucius, Wallace's appreciation of, ii. 152
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