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
---- letters from:
on "Origin of Races of Man," ii. 18;
on geographical distribution, 19;
on Wallace's "Law regulating Introduction of Species," etc., 21;
on humming-birds, shells, etc., 23;
on Wallace's "Mimicry of Colours," 25;
on diversity of human races, 28-9;
on Wallace's "Malay Archipelago," 30;
on Wallace's "Geographical Distribution," 32
Lyell, Sir Leonard, i. 120
Lythrum, trimorphism of, i. 161, 169
M
McAndrew, Mr., on littoral shells of the Azores, ii. 24
Macmahon, Dr. P.A., and the Wallace medallion, ii. 253
Madagascar, i. 290 (note);
fauna of, 188, 189, 192, 293, 295;
flora of, 311-13
Madeira, land shells in, i. 132;
birds in, 138
"Maha Bharata," Wallace's appreciation of, ii. 116
Malaria, Wallace on, ii. 241
Malay Archipelago, Wallace's explorations in, i. 35-42;
distribution of animals in, 138
"---- ----," Wallace's, i. 42, 121, 133, 140, 235, 237; ii. 30,
143, 159, 230, 231;
translations of, i. 245
"Malayan Papilionidae," Wallace's, i. 153, ii. 4, 6, 231
Malthus on "Population," i. 103, 104, 111, 116, 136, 175, 317
Man, influence of sexual selection on, i. 154, 155, 180, 181, 182, 183;
geographical distribution of, 156;
zoological classification of, 157;
original colour of, ii. 29.
----, origin of, Darwin's views of, i. 154-5, 243
(_see also_ "Descent of Man")
---- ---- Wallace's views of, i. 91-2, 152-3, 155 _et seq._, 221,
240, 243, 250, 256, ii. 31
"Man's Place in the Universe," ii. 102, 120, 167, 170 _et seq._, 178
Mantegazza, colour theory of, i. 299
Marchant, James, ii. 100;
and the Wallace memorial, ii. 253;
letter from Bishop Ryle to, 254
"Mars," Wallace's, ii. 122, 172-3, 175-7
"---- and its Canals," Lowell's, ii. 172, 175-7
Marshall, Mr. J.W., ii. 53, 209, 226
---- Dr. W., i. 279
Martineau, James, Darwin on Spencer's reply to, i. 272
"Material for Study of Variation," Bateson's, ii. 60-1
"Materialism of the Present Day," Janet's, i. 170, 172, 173, 175
Maternal impressions, ii. 57-8
Matthew, P., anticipates theory of Natural Selection, i. 116, 142
Maw, Mr., reviews "Origin of Species," i. 144
Melastoma, i. 150, 151
Meldola, Prof. Raphael, lecture on Evolution by, i. 123;
death of, ii. 35;
criticism of Romanes' theory, 36;
on importance of "divergence," 41-2;
President of Entomological Society, 63;
reminiscences of Wallace, 226;
at Wallace's funeral, 252;
and the Abbey memorial, 253
Mendelism, ii. 84;
Dr. Archdall Reid's view of, 85;
and Evolution, Wallace on, 93
Menura superba, i. 183 (note)
Mesmerism, Wallace and, i. 24, ii. 182
Meyer, Dr. Adolf Bernhard, i. 248, 249
Mias, i. 53, 56, 57, ii. 30
Mill, John Stuart, invites Wallace to join Land Tenure Reform
Association, ii. 143
Mill's "Siege of the South Pole," ii. 82
Miller, Mr. Ben R., letter to, ii. 98
Mimetic butterflies, i. 167, 168, 176, 178, 179, 189 (note), 200,
213, 217, 224, 254, 300
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