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
Conscience, evolution of, i. 263
"Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection," Wallace's, i. 94,
250, 252, ii. 5, 6
Cooke, Kate, medium, ii. 193, 194, 195
Co-operation, Wallace on, ii. 151-2
Cope, E.D., ii. 47
Copley Medals awarded to Wallace, ii. 128, 222
Coral islands, Lyell on, ii. 22
"---- Reefs," Darwin's, ii. 2
---- snakes, i. 187
Crawford, Marion, one of Wallace's favourite authors, ii. 131
"Creation by Law," Wallace's article on, i. 188, 192, ii. 6
"Creative Thought," Sir Wm. Barrett's, ii. 212-13, 249
"Creed of Science," Graham's, i. 318
Croll, James, i. 242, 305, 313, ii. 5, 13
Crookes, Sir W., and psychical research, ii. 87, 189, 191, 205;
and Westminster Abbey memorial to Wallace, 253
Cross- and self-fertilisation, i. 169, 297, ii. 46
"Cross Unions of Dimorphic Plants," Darwin's, i. 218
"Crossing Plants," Darwin's, i. 296
Crotch, G., i. 262
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"Darwin and After Darwin," Romanes', ii. 50
"---- and his Teachings," i. 170
"---- and 'The Origin,'" Poulton's, ii. 88 (note)
----, Charles, i. 1, 2;
birth of, 5;
autobiography, 5, 23 (note);
ancestors, 6;
at Shrewsbury Grammar School, 12;
natural history tastes, 12;
as angler, 12;
egg-collecting, 12;
humanity of, 13;
leaves Shrewsbury Grammar School, 15;
fondness for shooting, 16;
at Cambridge, 16;
medical studies, 16;
theological studies, 17, ii. 184;
tours in North Wales, i. 18;
beetle-hunting, 18, 114;
voyage in the _Beagle_, 18;
theory of Natural Selection, 102, 107;
reading, 103;
visits Maer and Shrewsbury, 103;
experiments, 103;
Huxley and, 104;
at work on Species and Varieties, 107;
at Down, 109;
receives presentation copy of Spencer's Essays, 124;
appreciation of Wallace's magnanimity, 134, 137, 139, 141, 153,
164, 242, 252, 287, 304;
falls from his horse, 243;
on Wallace's review of "Descent of Man," 260-2;
criticism of Wallace's "Geographical Distribution," 286, 289;
at Dorking, 288;
promotes memorial to City Corporation in favour of Wallace, 303;
acknowledgment of "Island Life," 307-8;
on migration of plants, 307 (note), 312;
memorial to Gladstone on behalf of Wallace, 313;
death of, 318
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