To A. R. Wallace [29? September 1863]
Summary
Baffling problems with Melastoma. Appreciates ARW’s help with it and the "gorze case".
Has read report of ARW’s paper [to Newcastle BAAS meeting, "On the geographical distribution of animal life"] in the Reader [2 (1863): 352–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [29? Sept 1863] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS. 46434: 36–7b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4310 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To A. R. Wallace [29? September 1863] …
- … and the letter from A. R. Wallace, 26 September 1863 ; the first Tuesday after that date …
- … 29 September. See letter from A. R. Wallace, 26 September 1863 . CD stayed at Malvern …
- … 1863] ). See letter from A. R. Wallace, 26 September 1863 and n. 2. CD never published …
- … See letter from A. R. Wallace, 26 September 1863 . CD discussed the acclimatisation of …
From A. R. Wallace [23 January 1863?]
Summary
Now recalls a Melastoma visited by some small Cetoniadae and bees (Xylocopa) in Malay Archipelago.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Jan 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.8: 70 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4390 |
To H. W. Bates 26 January [1863]
Summary
Congratulations on marriage, which CD considers the best and only chance for happiness in this world.
Glad HWB is near completion of book.
Begs him to thank Wallace for Melastoma information; CD "cannot endure being beaten by a beggarly flower".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 26 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3945 |
From A. R. Wallace 26 September 1863
Summary
Encloses flowers of Melastoma from Singapore.
Acclimatisation of plants.
Striped horses in London.
Bees’ cells; has been promised information from the East.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 146–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4308 |
Smith, Frederick. 1863a. Notes on the geographical distribution of the aculeate Hymenoptera collected by Mr A. R. Wallace in the Eastern Archipelago. [Read 5 March 1863.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 7: 109–45.
From Hugh Falconer 18 January [1863]
Summary
Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3926 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 January 1864
Summary
Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells
and Origin.
Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.
Work problems.
His butterfly collection.
Problems with book on Malay journey.
Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.
Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B8–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … R. Wallace, 1 January 1864 . Wallace’s review ( Wallace 1863a ) of Haughton 1862 was published in the October 1863 …
- … R. Wallace, 1 January 1864 and n. 2). Asa Gray praised Wallace 1863a in his letter to CD of 23 November 1863 ( …
- … R. Wallace, [ c. 10 April 1864] . See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 [June 1863] , …
To A. R. Wallace 17 June 1876
Summary
Further detailed comments on Geographical distribution.
Base treatment [of George Darwin] by Mivart in Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 17 June 1876 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10538 |
To Hugh Falconer 5 [and 6] January [1863]
Summary
His admiration for HF’s paper on American fossil elephant.
Notes "temporary irruption of S. American forms into N. America".
Rejoices that HF has "smashed" case of Mastodon on Timor.
Shares HF’s anger at Owen.
He is eager to hear about fossil bird [Archaeopteryx].
Comments on criticisms of species theory by [Johann Andreas?] Wagner.
Describes research on fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 5 and 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3901 |
From H. W. Bates 24 January 1863
Summary
Wallace noticed that melastomads in Malay archipelago were visited by small Hymenoptera.
Darwinism discussed at the last meeting of the Zoological Society. The Darwinians had the best of it.
HWB has committed the "folly" of marriage [to Sarah Ann Mason, 15 Jan 1863].
Printing of vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons] is nearly finished.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3941 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Archipelago. See letter from A. R. Wallace, [23 January 1863? ] . For CD’s interest in …
- … 1863 My Dear M r Darwin Although I cannot supply you with any information on the subject you mention I think it well to write saying that the day before receiving your last on repeating your enquiry to M r Wallace …
From Charles James Fox Bunbury to Charles Lyell 3 February 1866
Summary
Discusses Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of Brazil.
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 134–6. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4995F |
From Edward Blyth 19 February 1867
Summary
Encloses memorandum on Origin [1866]
discussing mimicry in mammals and birds,
abnormal habits shown by birds,
behaviour of cuckoos,
and analogies existing between mammals of the same geographical region.
Speculates on possible lines of development linking groups of mammals.
[CD’s notes on the verso of the letter are for his reply.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 209, 209/1 & 2, DAR 47: 190, 190a, DAR 80: B99–99a, DAR 205.11: 138, DAR 48: A75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5405 |
From H. W. Bates 17 October 1862
Summary
Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.
Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].
Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3771 |
From Hugh Falconer 9 January 1863
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3909 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … R. Wallace, 30 November 1861) . Falconer was interested in information about potential Timor specimens in connection with his argument against the existence of a fossil elephant in nearby Australia (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Hugh Falconer, 14 November [1862] , and this volume, letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] …
From A. R. Wallace 29 May [1864]
Summary
Argues the antiquity of the human species because natural selection acts differently with respect to men. Changes in man are largely confined to head and brain. Warfare and sex are very uncertain as means of selection.
Gives CD complete credit for theory of natural selection.
Is beginning his narrative of his travels.
Lyell argues against tracing man as far back as Miocene times. R. I. Murchison’s argument that Africa is the oldest existing land implies that Africa is the place to look for early man.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B14–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4514 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 11. In 1869, Wallace published The Malay Archipelago ( Wallace 1869 ), an account of his travels from 1854 to 1862. Henry Walter Bates had earlier published The naturalist on the River Amazons ( Bates 1863 ); …
- … R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and nn. 11–18. Philip Lutley Sclater was a zoological editor and one of the two editors-in-chief of the Natural History Review (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 September 1863 …
To B. D. Walsh 4 December [1864]
Summary
Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".
The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4695 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … which reviewed A. R. Wallace 1853 , Hooker 1854 , and Bates 1863 , as well as other …
- … 1863] and n. 7). In Origin , pp. 357–8, CD remained highly sceptical of Forbes’s theory in its broadest form, but admitted the possibility that there had been some land bridges. CD was interested in the depth of the ocean as an indicator of a boundary between different faunal regions (see letter to A. R. Wallace, …
From J. D. Hooker 29 May 1866
Summary
JDH sends a list of the principal confirmatory evidences of CD’s theory which he has prepared at W. R. Grove’s request for Nottingham speech ["Presidential address", Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5104 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [November 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4348 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 November [1864]
Summary
Asks JDH to verify an observation on Dicentra – what CD thought was a branch in the young plant now looks like a gigantic leaf in the old.
Concurs on Spencer’s clever emptiness.
Ramsay exaggerates role of ice. Sorry to hear that Tyndall grows dogmatic.
Admits difficulty of making case for Wallace’s Royal Medal at this time.
Will soon finish the first draft of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4650 |
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Bates, H. W. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (46) |
Wallace, A. R. | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Bates, H. W. | (6) |
Falconer, Hugh | (3) |