From A. R. Wallace 6 July 1870
Summary
Thanks for the drawing.
E. Claparède’s review [of Theory of natural selection, Rev. Cours Sci. 7 (1870): 564–71] is weak.
Looks forward [to Descent] with fear of being "crushed under a mountain of facts!"
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B92–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7269 |
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- … similar to the head shape of American hog-nose snakes ( Heterodon ). Like other species of …
From A. R. Wallace 23 July 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s comments and criticism of Geographical distribution.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 July 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B126–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10564 |
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- … with S. America. True Camels , hosts of Hog-like animals, true Rhinoceroses , & hosts of …
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Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … ed. p. 12). ‘I have been the more glad to get your Hog case,’ Darwin confided to Wyman, ‘as I …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
