From A. R. Wallace 4 August 1872
Summary
Has sent CD’s letter to Nature [see 8448].
Expresses admiration for H. C. Bastian’s The beginnings of life [1872] and comments on its bearing upon Origin.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B111–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8450 |
To A. R. Wallace 27 July [1872]
Summary
On ARW’s "crushing" review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of C. R. Bree’s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr Darwin.
Comments on other reviews and exchanges.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 27 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8429 |
From A. R. Wallace 11 March [1867]
Summary
ARW responds to CD’s list of queries about expression. Suggests acquiring informants through publishing the queries in newspapers. His doubts about their importance.
Has submitted caterpillar question to Entomological Society.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B24, B45; DAR 82: A22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5437 |
To A. R. Wallace 28 August [1872]
Summary
Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8488 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1872 , 1: vii). For CD’s earlier reservations about Bastian’s experiments, see Correspondence vol. 18, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … J. D. Hooker, 8 July [1870] ). Bastian claimed that simpler, more generalised forms of life could generate more complex forms rapidly through ‘heterogenesis’ at any point in time ( H. C. Bastian 1872 , …
To A. R. Wallace 20 October [1872]
Summary
Remarks about an enclosed specimen,
and extract of letter from W. A. L. Marshall [8560].
ARW’s good review of J. C. Houzeau de Lehaie [Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux, in Nature 6 (1872): 469–71].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 20 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8566 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
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