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
"---- up the Amazon," Edwards's, i. 25
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Waddell's "Lhasa," ii. 82
Waddington, Mr. Samuel, ii. 77
Wages, question of, ii. 156
Waimate (N.Z.), missionary settlement at, i. 37
Wallace, Alfred Russel:
co-discoverer of Natural Selection, i. 1, 2, 105, 106, 107, 111, 112,
113, 136, 139, 153, 158, ii. 39-40;
early years, i. 5-44;
nervousness, 7, 14, 35, ii. 134;
his father, i. 8;
his mother, 8, 9, 30;
first experiments, 9, 19-20;
schooldays, 11;
geographical studies, 11;
love of reading, 13;
pupil teacher at Hertford Grammar School, 14;
interest in Socialism, 15, 27, ii. 151 _et seq._, 181;
land-surveying, i. 15, 17, 19, ii. 139, 182;
astronomical studies and writings, i. 20, ii. 167 _et seq._;
early interest in zoology and geology, i. 20;
first telescope, 20, ii. 168;
love of botany, i. 20, 21, ii. 106;
his herbarium, i. 22;
as watchmaker, 23;
interest in phrenology and mesmerism, 24, ii. 181, 182;
studies beetles and butterflies, i. 24, 114;
school teacher at Leicester, 24;
voyage to Amazon, 26 _et seq._;
explores Uaupes River, 29;
fire at sea and loss of collections, 29, 30;
first meeting with Darwin, 35, 105, ii. 62;
meets Huxley, i. 35;
visits Switzerland, 35, ii. 204;
visits Singapore, i. 36;
on missionaries, 37-8, 47, 48, 50, 62-3;
in Sarawak, 38-40;
beetle and butterfly collecting, i. 38, 41-2, 114, 237, ii. 4-5;
ill-health of, i. 40, 79;
enthusiasm as naturalist and collector, 40-2, 115;
journey in a "prau," 42;
early letters, etc., 45-88;
Darwin-Wallace joint paper read before Linnean Society, 71, 89, 109,
118, 122;
Darwin's appreciation of his magnanimity, 71, 106, 118, 134, 137, 139,
141, 153, 164, 242, 252, 287, 304;
attack of intermittent fever, 107, 108;
jubilee of Darwin-Wallace essay and his speech, 110 _et seq_;
relations with Spencer, 125;
Presidential Address to Entomological Society, 126;
reads proofs of Spencer's "principles of Sociology," 126;
correspondence with Darwin, 127-320;
inscription on envelope containing Darwin's first eight letters, 128;
sends Darwin a honeycomb, 143;
reads Spencer's works, 147, 150;
"expose" of Rev. S. Haughton's "Bee's Cell," 148;
his opinion of Agassiz, 149;
and the origin of man, 152, 153, 154, 155 _et seq._, 240;
and Darwin's paper on climbing plants, 162;
on a crested blackbird, 163;
on the _Reader_, 165;
on mimicry, 167 (note), 168, 176, 179;
approves of term "survival of the fittest," 171;
birth of a son, 188;
later views on Natural Selection, 217, 218;
dedicates "Malayan Travels" to Darwin, 232;
birth of a daughter, 234;
visits Wales, 247;
reviews "Descent of Man," 260;
on Chauncey Wright and Mivart, 265-7;
Bethnal Green Museum directorship, 277;
and second edition of "Descent of Man," 281 (note), 282, 283;
social and political views, 283, 317, 319, ii. 139-65, 245-7;
at Dorking, i. 294, 297, ii. 106;
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