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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Naturalists -- Correspondence; Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
[28] Presidential Address in Section D of British Association, 1896,
reprinted in "Essays on Evolution," p. 1.
[29] To the British Association at Edinburgh, 1892.
[30] Vol. ixx. (1904), p. 313, a review of T.H. Morgan's "Evolution and
Adaptation."
[31] "The Bearing of the Study of Insects upon the Question, Are
Acquired Characters Hereditary?" The Presidential Address to the
Entomological Society of London, 1905, reprinted in "Essays on
Evolution," p. 139.
[32] Probably "Root Principles," by Child.
[33] "Essays on Evolution." 1908.
[34] Of the Introduction to "Essays on Evolution."
[35] Vol. lxxvii., p. 54, a note "On the Interpretation of Mendelian
Phenomena."
[36] The Oxford Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of
Charles Darwin, February 12, 1809. An account of the celebration is
given in "Darwin and 'The Origin,'" by E.B. Poulton, p. 78. 1909.
[37] The Darwin Celebration.
[38] "The World of Life."
[39] _Bedrock_, April, 1912, p. 48.
[40] "Shall we have Common Sense? Some Reeeat Lectures." By George W.
Sleeper. Boston, 1849.
[41] _See_ footnote to preceding letter. The book formed the subject of
Prof. Poulton's Presidential Addresses (May 24, 1913, and May 25, 1914)
to the Linnean Society (_Proceedings_, 1912-13, p. 26, and 1913-14, p.
23). The above letter is in part quoted in the former address.
[42] This letter relates to evidences, favourable to Sleeper, which had
not at the time been critically examined, but broke down when carefully
scrutinised. _See_ Prof. Poulton's address to the Linnean Society, May
25, 1914 (_Proc_., 1913-14, p. 23).
[43] For many years he was Examiner in Physiography at South Kensington.
[44] _See_ footnote on p. 109.
[45] For letters from Wallace describing Col. Legge's visit with the
Order, _see_ pp. 128 and 224.
[46] The present Lord Rothschild.
[47] On his ninetieth birthday.
[48] See his book, "Land Nationalisation, its Necessity and its Aims"
(1882).
[49] Although this book was his last published work, it was written
before "Social Environment and Moral Progress." He handed me the MS. a
few months before his death.--The Editor.
[50] A full account of this scheme is given in his "Studies, Scientific
and Social," chap. xxvi.
[51] "My Life," ii. 237-8
[52] Advocating Eugenics and the segregation of the unfit.
[53] Hon. Sec. of the Federated Trades and Labour Council, Bournemouth.
[54] At an Old Age Pension meeting.
[55] _See_ Vol. I., p. 20.
[56] "The World of Life," p. 374.
[57] "Life and Letters," i. 58.
[58] Considerable reference is made to Mrs. Hardinge in "Miracles and
Modern Spiritualism" pp. 117-21.
[59] The "spirits" are supposed to produce the faces.
[60] This is a strange accompaniment of most advanced spiritual
phenomena.
[61] Against vaccination.
[62] Psychical Research Society Report.
[63] "The Wonderful Century."
[64] A medium.
[65] The lecture at the Royal Institution, when he wore the Order.
[66] In _Nature_, Nov. 20, 1913, p. 348.
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