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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Naturalists -- Correspondence; Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wilson, Mr. D.A., reminiscences of Wallace, ii. 151-2
Wiltshire, Mr. A., letters to, ii. 162,165
Wimborne, Lord, sale of land to Wallace, ii. 119
Wollaston, Dr., reviews "Origin of Species," i. 142;
tribute to Wallace, ii. 230
Wollaston's "Coleoptera Atlantidum," ii. 22-3
Woman, independence and future of, Wallace's views on, ii. 149-51, 245
"Wonderful Century," Wallace's, ii. 144, 168, 169, 238
"Wonders of the World," i. 13
Wood, J.G., book on the horse, ii. 113
Woodbury, Mr., researches of, i. 146
"World of Life," Wallace's, ii. 8, 94, 167, 172, 176, 178, 182
"Worms, Formation of Vegetable Mould by Action of," Darwin's, i. 320
Wright, Chauncey, reviews Mivart's "Genesis of Species," i. 264, 265-7
Z
Zoellner, Prof., and supernormal phenomena, ii. 198, 199
"Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago," Wallace's, i, 137, ii. 232
Zoology, lectures on, at Edinburgh, i, 16; Darwin's study of, at
Cambridge, 17
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] "It is no doubt the chief work of my life."--C. DARWIN.
[2] "My Life," i. 396-7.
[3] "My Life," ii. 94-5.
[4] "My Life," pp. 97-8.
[5] "My Life," pp. 98-9.
[6] Dr. Henry Forbes in a note to the Editor writes: "In his 'Island
Life' Wallace extended his philosophical observations to a wider field,
and it is in philosophical biology that Wallace's name must stand
pre-eminent for all time." "In our own science of biology," say Profs.
Geddes and Thomson in a recent work, "we may recall the 'Grand Old Men,'
surely second to none in history--Darwin, Wallace, and Hooker."
[7] "My Life," ii. 99-101.
[8] "My Life," ii. 22.
[9] "The Origin of the Races of Man."
[10] "The Malay Archipelago."
[11] Private Secretary to Sir Charles Lyell.
[12] "The Descent of Man."
[13] Probably refers to "The Geographical Distribution of Animals."
[14] The book referred to is Wallace's "Island Life," published in 1880.
[15] For the work on "Darwinism."
[16] Printed in full as a footnote to Weismann's "Essays upon Heredity,"
etc.
[17] _See_ footnote 3, pp. 172-3, of Weismann's "Essays upon Heredity,"
etc.
[18] "The Origin of Floral Structures through Insect and Other
Agencies." Internat. Sci. Series. 1888.
[19] "The Origin of the Fittest." London, 1887.
[20] "Essays upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems," Vol. II.
1892.
[21] _Trans. Ent. Soc., London_, 1892, p. 293.
[22] As Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford.
[23] A member of a family which has produced several eminent medical
men.
[24] Vol. I., p. 445, a review of "A Theory of Development and
Heredity," by Henry B. Orr. 1893.
[25] "Material for the Study of Variation, treated with especial regard
to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species." 1894.
[26] Reprinted in "Essays on Evolution," p. 95. 1908.
[27] "The Present Evolution of Man." 1896.
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